Quotes About Justice

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

Those who fear men like laws.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.