Quotes About Justice

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.