Quotes About Justice

Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.

The laws of war at that early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

Is't death to fall for Freedom's right? He's dead alone who lacks her light!

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

The sea-green Incorruptible [Robespierre].

"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

A healthy hatred of scoundrels.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Where thou findest a Lie that is oppressing thee, extinguish it. Lies exist there only to be extinguished; they wait and cry earnestly for extinction.

on les pendit, they hanged them." Brief is the word; not without significance, be it true or untrue!

Our 'superior morality' is properly rather an 'inferior criminality' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

The Universe itself is a Monarchy and Hierarchy; large liberty of "voting" there, all manner of choice, utmost free-will, but with conditions inexorable and immeasurable annexed to every exercise of the same. A most free commonwealth of "voters;" but with Eternal Justice to preside over it, Eternal Justice enforced by Almighty Power!

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it re- mains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised. —Michael Oakeshott, 19831

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

You probably learned in your high school civics course, as I did in mine, that the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. Well, I'm here to tell you this morning that this is not strictly true. The Court of Public Opinion is actually the highest court in the land.

Trial by jury, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

I saw the legal system close up, and I understood that it was built by lawyers for lawyers, and unless you have an attorney to navigate it, you're not going to be successful.

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

You may have the might, but that does not necessarily make you right.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.