Quotes About Justice

Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.