Quotes About Justice

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

Only poor men get hanged.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.