Quotes About Justice

A society can never be free without women's liberation

My dear friend Queen Victoria, who has absolute trust in the Divine Justice and goodness, used to often say to me: "What we do not understand now, we shall understand some day- in this life or the next" Empress Eugenie

No emancipation without that of society.

T]he sacred sense of right and the reverence for the law, which it is difficult to destroy in the minds of the multitude, it is still more difficult to reproduce.

There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.

Una tale uguaglianza in cui scompaiono le differenze favorisce nascostamente la disuguaglianza.

Wenn aber in Zeiten wie den heutigen die Not am höchsten ist, öffnet sich der Himmel und schleudert sein Feuer auf die, die ohnehin verloren sind.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will be confused. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. Confucius's

was Aristotle who said that a man who committed an offence while intoxicated was doubly guilty: first of the offence itself, and second of having intoxicated himself.

but only a moment's reflection is necessary to realize that, where there is a choice of incarceration and so-called community sentencing, a reduction in the rate of recidivism is perfectly compatible with a rise, even a huge rise, in the numbers of crimes committed; and vice versa, with a rise in the rate of recidivism coincident with a fall, even a dramatic fall, in the rate of crime.

But life is not a matter of double-entry book-keeping. No number of years in prison can be equivalent to the torture and killing of children: if it were, the term could be served in advance and the person who served it would be entitled to commit his crimes on his release.

learned that there is no more heartless saying than that the people get the government they deserve

the great majority of heroin addicts who end up in prison had extensive criminal records before they ever took heroin.

To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity.

There are few illicit pleasures greater than that of causing pain to others for their own, or some higher, good.

compassion being measured by the amount of other people's money you are prepared to pay for the supposed resolution of a social problem.

An American Tragedy.

THE most hopeful adage of political folklore is: "One man plus the truth makes a majority.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*.