Quotes About Justice

Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

The surest law in the world is the Law of Compensation. Its Justice works continually. If you do a Service you get back a Service. If you do Nothing you get back Nothing. Mere existence is not Living. Into your twenty-four hours put Work and Play and Rest, but at no time be a Bystander.

A natureza não está interessada nesse tipo de moral, ela não está interessada no certo ou no errado. Ela não está interessada na justiça ou na injustiça. O seu interesse é unicamente de forçar tudo a expressar a ação de acordo com a sua natureza.

To fear or to worry is as sinful as to curse, for how can one fear or worry if he intrinsically believes in the Eternal justice, the Omnipotent Good, the Boundless Love? To fear, to worry, to doubt, is to deny, to dis-believe.

The hypocrite thinks he can hood wink the world and the eternal law of the world. There is but one person that he hoodwinks, and that is himself, and for that the law of the world inflicts its righteous penalty.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse.

An honest person will never commit criminal acts, but a criminal will readily engage in legal acts.

But bankers used to be subjected to Hammurabi's rule. The tradition in Catalonia was to behead bankers in front of their own banks

Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung" goes the saying attributed to Richelieu, Voltaire, Talleyrand (a vicious censor during the French revolution phase of terror), and a few others.

our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught.

A king, angry at his son, swore that he would crush him with a large stone.

it is about the distortions of symmetry and reciprocity in life: if you have the rewards, you must also get some of the risks— not let others pay the price of your mistakes. If you inflict risk onto others and they are harmed, you need to pay some price for it.

Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

law: innocent until proven guilty as opposed to guilty until proven innocent

provérbio de Sêneca no Tratado sobre a clemência a respeito do efeito reverso das punições. Ele escreveu: "O castigo repetido, enquanto esmaga o ódio de alguns, incita o ódio de todos […] assim como as árvores que foram podadas fazem brotar novamente incontáveis galhos". Pois

2. No socialization of losses and privatization of gains.

you may be committing an injustice to others by favoring him.

Someone getting rich is doing so at other people's expense

First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.