Quotes About Justice

I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

God befriend us, as our cause is just!

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

All will come out in the washing.

Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's conscience what is justice.

In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

None but the brave deserve the fair.

... That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking, he is not bigoted about it.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

One crime is everything; two nothing.