Quotes About Justice

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

On this issue, the United States is an outlaw, waiting to be brought to justice.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

What does the delegate propose? To place the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities on the level with the virtuous and good man?" In

It's the story of how I went from being lionized for helping bring the snipers to justice to being vilified for writing a book about it.

put in a patrol wagon.

home of the man-eater, Alfred Packard, who had killed and eaten the choice parts of five men. He had been taken to the penitentiary for life a few years previous.

who feared God, but not death … who thought none below him but the base and unjust, none above him but the wise and virtuous'.

Company G today committed a war crime. They are going to win the war, however, so I don't suppose it really matters.

Only poor people go to jail.

Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

If God appeared on this earth again, lawyers would sue Him.

To the beautiful falls the right of command, he observes, quoting Aristotle, although he adds that this situation is not always just.

Focusing on the dead women enables Americans to ignore the dead men, and ignoring the dead men enables the United States to ignore the failure of its free-trade schemes, which in Juarez are producing poor people and dead people faster than any other product.

I try to construct a theory on how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella: But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust hath the just's umbrella.

The deportation proceedings and appeals would last for fifteen years, but they were always hanging over Russell's head. In the end when he lost his last appeal and had packed his bags and had his tickets, I recommended a lawyer to him who went through the Italian government, spread a little lira, and got it so the Italian government refused to take Russell, and that was that. America had to keep him.

think they would have done to him

Riesel had been crusading against the criminal element in labor unions. The night of the radio broadcast, Riesel stepped out of the famous Lindy's restaurant on Broadway near Times Square and was approached on the sidewalk by a goon who threw a cup of acid in his face. Riesel was blinded by the acid's effect on his eyes. It soon became obvious that the attack had been ordered by Hoffa ally and labor racketeer John Dioguardi, aka Johnny Dio.

they wanted the guy left right there on the sidewalk as a message to those who needed to know the guy did not get away with whatever it was he had done. Anytime you read in the paper about a masked gunman, rest assured the gunman had no mask on.

Nunz and Sammy were good people. I never cared for Pro himself. He'd kill you for nothing. One time he had a guy kissed for getting more votes than him.