Quotes About Justice

The government considers it the greatest of crimes against humanity to continue this war over the issue of how to divide among the strong and rich nations the weak nationalities they have conquered, and solemnly announces its determination immediately to sign terms of peace to stop this war on the terms indicated, which are equally just for all nationalities without exception.

I guess what happens is, if you get arrested in Town A (Philadelphia) and then Town B (San Francisco)--with a lot of publicity--then when you get to Town C they have to arrest you or what kind of sh*thouse town are they running?

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

I guess what happens is, if you get arrested in Town A (Philadelphia) and then Town B (San Francisco)-with a lot of publicity-then when you get to Town C they have to arrest you or what kind of shithouse town are they running? It's a pattern of unintentional harassment.

According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?

The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.

What are we going to do in the face of what we remember? (Langston Hughes)

This is a duty call, Mr Deene. I have given much thought to the matter before broaching it to you. But I feel that in justice to all I can do no less. If I seem to stray beyond the limits of charity, you will understand, I hope." "I'm afraid I don't understand much yet," said Carolus truthfully.

Gerçek ?udur ki, s?n?flar var oldukça devlet s?n?flar üstü olamaz; efendilerinin yan?nda yer almak zorundad?r.

S?n?flar var oldukça devlet s?n?flar üstü olamaz.

The rabbi of Chelm visited the prison, and there he heard all but one of the inmates insist on their innocence. So he came back, held a council of wise men, and recommended that Chelm have two prisons: one for the guilty and another for the innocent.

porque uma ideia tão justa não poderá ser estéril, um fim tão gracioso merece ser executado com obstinação.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction ... the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

But if you believe in coincidence, you probably shouldn't be a cop.