Quotes About Justice

A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.

The fact was that one was left empty-handed. There was no system to soothe the unfairness of things; justice was without scope; it might snag the stealer of chickens, but great evasive crimes would have to be dismissed because, if identified and netted, they would bring down the entire structure of so-called civilization. For crimes that took place in the monstrous dealings between nations, for crimes that took place in those intimate spaces between two people without a witness...

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?

It seems unfair not to give credit where credit is due simply because one lacks a certain number of candles on one's birthday cake.

It seems unfair to give credit where credit is due simply because one lacks a certain number of candles on one's birthday cake.

History has taught us that no society built upon the exploitation of any of its individuals can long endure

Justice may be slow, but she's also relentless.

Justice may be relentless, as Franklin says, but she's also hobbled by rules. That's why I choose vengeance. She's the only mistress I serve.

But the Bible says 'do not kill,'" Nessa reminded her grandmother. "The Commandments only apply to humans," said the older woman. "Nobody goes to hell for killing a monster.

Because for people like me, there are two hells," Nessa said. "One where there's fire and brimstone and another filled with rich white people. And I don't want you beating up the first person who asks me to get them a drink.

It's all about the killers—not the women they kill.

In his book Oligarchy, American political scientist Jeffrey Winters provides a stunning illustration of just how dire US inequality has become: the average wealth of the richest one hundred American households relative to that of the bottom 90 percent approximates the wealth disparity between a Roman senator and a slave at the height of the Roman Empire.

In the Western mind, any undemocratic political system that deprives citizens the ability to choose or remove a leader is by definition evil.

God forgave. There was infinite mercy in Heaven; this she believed. There had to be, when there was so little mercy on earth.

Corruption should be regarded a disorder just like any other addictions

You cannot develop a country by oppressing the poor of the poorest

Death comes to us all, that is the only thing we can be certain of. It makes no difference whether it is a thief in a garbage dump or a policeman in the line of duty. When someone dies at the hands of another, the pain for the survivors is the same.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country.

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

EDUCATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT WITH IMMENSE POWER TO TRANSFORM

It is only through multilateral institutions that States can hold each other to account. And that makes it very important to organize those institutions in a fair and democratic way, giving the poor and the weak some influence over the actions of the rich and the strong.