Quotes About Justice

The most just death is that which is most willed. Our lives depend on the will of others, but death on ourselves alone. There is nothing to which we should apply ourselves more than this. Reputation has no place here and it is folly to think of it. Life is servitude if we lack the freedom to die.

Zaman?n çoktan sildiÄŸi bir hata için cezaland?r?labilir miydi insan?

Çok soran insan çok ÅŸeyi anlayabilir ancak. Yaln?zca çok ÅŸeyi anlayan biri adil bir insan olabilir.

Porque el que no actúa también hace algo que lo convierte en culpable en la Tierra...

Inflation, unemployment, the political crises and, not least, the folly of lands abroad, had made the German people restless; a tremendous desire for order animated all circles of the German people, to whom order had always been more important than freedom and justice. And anyone who promised order – even Goethe said that disorder was more distasteful to him than even an injustice – could count on hundreds of thousands of supporters from the start.

And although our time gave me the opportunity like anyone else, I never got my hands on the property or assets of another Frenchman. Only alone have I lived, whether in war or peace, and I have never demanded anything of someone without remunerating him justly. I have my law and my own courts of justice, and they pass sentence on me.

Es cien veces mejor sufrir por una convicción que matar por ella.

a human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbour. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence.

La justicia pública decide seguramente sobre esas cosas con mayor severidad que yo; ella tiene el deber de proteger despiadadamente las costumbres establecidas y las convenciones legales; está obligada a juzgar y no a disculpar. Yo, sin embargo, en tanto que persona privada, no veo por qué he de adoptar el papel de juez; prefiero actuar de defensor. Personalmente, me causa mayor satisfacción comprender a los hombres que condenarlos.

You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end...

It's never fair. It has never been fair, any of it, and our reasonableness cannot undo the unfair.

It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)

In Iowa, locals kidnapped a judge and threatened to hang him unless he agreed not to force any more families off their land.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.