Quotes About Justice

Do you really want to deprive Dylan of her father to punish me? Are there no limits to your vengeance?

Yet it makes perfect sense for the angry woman who had announced she would take away my daughter and had a plan worse than death for me, to resort to the single most common cliché of custody warfare, accusing the spouse of abusing the child.

A fatal brain tumor. I hated the judge but felt bad when I heard he was diagnosed so tragically. Harsher ones around me were less moved by his plight and quipped it was the only time in his career justice was actually served.

During the court procedure, I was so naïve. I assumed if you perjured yourself you went to jail, but it didn't seem to matter when people were exposed in court as liars.

I was ready to go to court and declare with total honesty that I never abused anyone in my life, and I was ready to defend that statement publicly.

This machine kills fascists.

I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there

All of you cowboys, fight for your land.

Then I got a little braver and made up songs telling what I thought was wrong and how to make it right, songs that said what everybody in the country was thinking. And this has held me ever since.

Jesus don't care if you call it socialism or communism, or just me and you.

The wide earth may harbor vicious affairs,     But high Heaven will a good man vindicate.     Footloose they're safe on Tath?gata's way,     Certain to reach Mount Spirit's paradise gate.

Cuando haces una obra de caridad, on en mi caso de solidaridad, te sientes con derecho a ser como eres y tener lo que tienes. Ya pagaste tu impuesto, ¿ajá?

it is no disgrace but honourable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids;

do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice? It

Most of all I vowed that my followers would learn more from my own example than from any legal code or set of regulations. As important to the people as written laws may be, the leader serves as a living law. He not only acts as a competent guide but also functions as a wise judge, detecting and punishing those who fail to serve the people with justice and honesty.

and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law. And is

You're a good friend, Apollodorus, but would you rather see me put to death justly or unjustly?

Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.

The concept of human rights had been invented by people who were thinking only of human beings

If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! -- do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.

There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think Business as usual. But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story.

Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defence, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.

When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine, and a whole city may reap the evil fruit of one man's ill deeds.

At the heart of Deuteronomy stands chapter 15, with its laws on the release of debts and slaves.