Quotes About Justice

The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Truth cannot be partial; it is for the good of all. Finally

How is it that one is born of good parents, receives a good education and becomes a good man, while another comes from besotted parents and ends on the gallows? How do you explain this inequality without implicating God?

inequality without implicating God?

D esire, ignorance, and inequality this is the trinity of bondage

In the 1930s, he came up with an approach he calls "earned and deserved.""I believe, in order to be fair to all students, a teacher must give each individual student the treatment he earns and deserves. The most unfair thing to do is to treat all of them the same.

Stan Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the other - he's gotta go down.

It's odd that the people who worry whether certain plays are "morally offensive" so rarely worry about the moral offensiveness of war, poverty, bigotry.

The length of sentences depends upon the criminal's wealth and type of legal help more than upon the seriousness of his transgression. Court procedures are slow and cumbersome. It is the poor and stupid criminal who gets the heaviest sentences - so the aim of criminals is to become rich and cunning, and thus avoid the harshest penalties.

Der Herr Gott ist raffiniert aber Boshaft ist Er nicht

In the end, Scipio and Salvadore were condemned to a gruesome death. They were to be hanged, decapitated, and quartered. As a deterrent to potential conspirators, each man's head and body parts were to be displayed in different counties.17

to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

Research shows the more intimate the crime, the more people focus on the victim's behavior, and of course, there's no crime more intimate than sexual violence," Archambault says.