Quotes About Justice

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.