Quotes About Justice

This is why we can't leave the making of laws to men. They result in travesties of injustice that unfairly burden the poor. And women. Those high and mighty aristocrats, in their black robes and powdered wigs—they have no idea.

Okay, let's get something straight here, shall we? You're not my lord. I'm not your subject. Furthermore, I'm not gonna kiss your king-sized ass and you better just get used to it. Cathy, on the other hand, is my client and I intend to get her a fair settlement.

Let us kill all the lawyers!

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

Truth is on the side of compassion.

There were torments in the Himalayas, windspouts in the Grand Canyon, and Judges of the Supreme Court got into sacred rages. What could little boys do, too, about differences between their hearthstones, Mother and Father?

He was incapable of nursing an injustice which would cost him good living to repay, an evil thought which it would undo him to give back, or even sorrow in his bosom; and tragedy itself could not worm its way by any means into his heart.

Remember this: Justice and charity come before everything. In any case, what happens to us here on earth is not very important, since our true life is waiting for us above.

Judge me, O Reader, and distinguish my cause from the nation that reads not; deliver me from the unjust and ignorant man.

Speak gently but look out for your rights.

Yet here stand women not simply accused, but already judged, sentenced and condemned.

Le grand danger qui guette la lutte des femmes aujourd'hui est celui-ci : que l'en deça de la question féministe soit présenté et vécu, comme son au-delà, permettant ou visant à permettre, l'économie...de la lutte tout simplement.

L'héritage par les enfants ne nécessite, lui, aucune justification. Toute autre dévolution est de surcroît regardée comme "lésant" les enfants, ce qui confirme que ceux-ci sont les héritiers "normaux".

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position

There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer unjustly, if all the world forsake us, God will not. Whatever happens, then, let us put our trust in God.

Sólo los políticos se arrogan el derecho a condonar o perdonar en nombre de todos, cosa inconcebible para un crimen de masas o un genocidio.

La hambruna es el primer crimen de masas, y es muy difícil probarlo con certeza.

Cuál es el régimen político más inhumano? El que decreta el bien del hombre.

To police is not to conquer, to police is to remind people there are rules that if followed benefit all.

You can't comfort the afflicted," the note read, "without afflicting the comfortable.

You're both treated fairly," she said, "but sometimes people require different things for true fairness.

We're happier when the assholes are villains.

In a proper utopia, they would not let any lawyers in.