Quotes About Justice

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

I've never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.