Quotes About Justice

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.