Quotes About Justice

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

For what are called criminals nowadays are not criminals at all.  Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.  That indeed is the reason why our criminals are, as a class, so absolutely uninteresting from any psychological point of view.  They are not marvellous Macbeths and terrible Vautrins.  They are merely what ordinary, respectable, commonplace people would be if they had not got enough to eat. 

Not Forgive us for our sins but Smite us for our iniquities should be the prayer of man to a most just God.

In her dealings with man, destiny never closed her accounts.

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. 

For Man's grim Justice goes its way, And will not swerve aside: It slays the weak, it slays the strong, It has a deadly stride: With iron heel it slays the strong, The monstrous parricide!

Sweet rains fall on just and unjust alike

All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime

better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure swift penalty along with it. there was purification in punishment

Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure, swift penalty along with it. There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

Why should there be one law for men, and another for women?

When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.

Wenn ein Mann alt genug ist, um unrecht zu tun, so sollte er alt genug sein, um recht zu tun.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

Atunci cand zeii vor sa-i pedepseasca pe oameni, le indeplinesc dorintele.

Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime'.

You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a a shame in a woman to be an infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

En lugar de «perdónanos nuestros pecados», la plegaria de los hombres a un Dios de justicia debería ser «castíganos por nuestras iniquidades».

I wish I had, for as sure as there is a God in heaven, if he ever does you any wrong, I shall kill him.

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

Znios? brutaln? si??, ale brutalny rozs?dek jest absolutnie nie do zniesienia. Pos?ugiwanie si? nim jest nie fair. To cios poni?ej intelektu