Quotes About Justice

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.

We all have the problem of what do you do with the not-guilty-yet in free and democratic societies where you have the presumption of innocence. It's a very difficult problem.

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary.

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

No one would normally accuse me of being soft on crime.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.

The justice system is a foundation of our existence as a democratic society. I will not be the one to soften its bite. But I will also not allow it to eat away at the legal authority of the legislative and executive branches. We must find the formula for the right balance between the branches.

I don't just talk about jewelry and cars and houses and belittling those that don't have that. I'm a democrat. I speak for the democrats. I speak for the soil.

No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

I think if you contribute to a job, and it's repeated and repeated, and sold over the world, and the producers are making millions, you should benefit from it.