Quotes About Justice

What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

It's hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to common sense and the rule of law.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child's best interests.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

We also have to think as fighters, celebrities - whatever you want to call us - that we have an obligation to point out stuff that's just completely wrong.

We have an obligation to each other to not only push our politicians but to push companies to do right by their workers.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

Attacking innocent people is always obscene.

When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the written law.

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.