Quotes About Justice

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

Am I not a man and brother?

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.