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Quotes About Justice

Das Feindstrafrecht betrachtet sein Subjekt als Sphinx: halb Mensch, halb Tier.
~ Unknown
Der rechtsstaatliche Katalog ist schön und gut, aber nur, solange er die Bekämpfung des Terrorismus nicht behindert.
~ Unknown
Prävention, die das Recht konsumiert, hat den Zug zu Totalität und Exzessivität.
~ Unknown
Angst macht süchtig nach Strafrecht.
~ Unknown
Die Folter war [...] praktizierte Schutzpflicht des Souveräns für seine Untertanen.
~ Unknown
Nicht nur Menschen, auch Rechtsgrundsätze wurden [...] von den Trümmern der Twin Towers erschlagen.
~ Unknown
Foltern zerstört die zivile Basis des Zusammenlebens.
~ Unknown
Wer Feind ist, ist keine rechtliche, sondern eine politische Frage.
~ Unknown
Wer ein Feindstrafrecht zu brauchen glaubt, der glaubt nicht an die Überlegenheit des Rechtsstaates über den Fundamentalismus.
~ Unknown
Sicherheit ist die gut ausbalancierte Freiheit aller.
~ Unknown
Der Staat, der nur wegen und aus der Freiheit seiner Menschen besteht, darf sich nicht gegen seine Schöpfer wenden.
~ Unknown
Sprookje Er was eens een man die altijd rechtvaardig was.
~ Unknown
Corruption will be enemy number one.
~ Unknown
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
~ Herman Melville
The way law stays alive is by remaining in touch with social contracts pieced together among real people on the ground.
~ Unknown
For great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.
~ Herodotus
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
~ Herodotus
The bread court does not deliberate, it punishes. It knows no mitigation, it needs no legal code. It is a law unto itself, because the hunger angel is also a thief who steals the brain. Bread justice has no prologue or epilogue, it is only here and now. Totally transparent, or totally mysterious. In any case, the violence meted out by bread justice is different from hungerless violence. You cannot approach the bread court with conventional morality.
~ Herta Muller
Quando a gente é aquilo que finge ser, é castigada por isso, é como se fosse uma lei.
~ Herta Muller
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
~ Hesiod
Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
~ Hesiod
Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.
~ Hesiod
Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil
~ Hesiod
Plan harm for another and harm yourself most, The evil we hatch always comes home to roost.
~ Hesiod