Quotes About Justice

A cop is a human creature born stupid and raised in stupidity.

I always thought,' I said, 'that a man became a cop to be shielded from his own criminality.

This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow old or else pay more for remaining the same.

A criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart.

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

You could easily do away with a lot of jails. They're shit. They breed, they don't deter, crime.

You have to know you can take a human life before you ever put on a police uniform.

Capital punishment is symbolic of society's determination to enforce all of its laws. If we don't enforce the severest of our laws, the criminal mind might conclude (punishments of) other laws won't be imposed against them

I always thought that a man became a cop to be shielded from his own criminality.

I'm not saying its right to break the law. I'm not talkin about that—but these prisons as they exist are wrong.

He was released in 2006, and his memoir, the book for which he was getting the prize in Dayton, In the Place of Justice, tells his story, from being a confused kid caught in a bank robbery gone bad, to a man who had fully taken

Executions must be a spectator sport.

hard work, positive thinking, fair dealing, right treatment of people, and the proper kind of praying always get results. This

In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law

Americans don't fight for gold or oil or colonial conquest; we fight for an idea—liberty.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

It's not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?

Tidak cukup hanya menjadi pihak yang tertindas, kau juga harus menjadi pihak yang benar, karena sebagian besar orang yang tertindas dapat dipandang salah dari nyaris semua sudut pandang.

Our ancestors used to torture criminals before they executed them—it's in times like these that one truly understands the importance of tradition.

Ali u zemlji kao što je naša, zemlji u kojoj je ljudski život ovoliko jeftin, nepromišljeno je upropastiti se zbog onoga u što vjeruješ. Velika na?ela i vjerovanja nisu za nas: oni su za ljude iz bogatih zemalja.