Quotes About Justice

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

Nature does not forgive.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

Nature supports right action.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.