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Quotes About Justice

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.
~ Philip Massinger
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
~ Pindar
I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
~ Plato
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.
~ Oren Moverman
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
~ Ouida
Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense
~ Ovid
No man provokes me with impunity.
~ Ovid
We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.
~ R. L. Hymers, Jr.
These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.
~ Ralph Adams Cram
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.
~ Ray McGovern
Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.
~ Rick Yancey
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
~ Robert Browning
We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.
~ Robert Hurt
God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
~ Robert Irvine
The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
~ Robert Jordan
I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
~ Robert Kennedy
There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
~ Harper Lee
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe