Quotes About Justice

The gods hate unjust men.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.