Quotes About Justice

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Corruption and manipulation of the ICC by foreign intelligence services subvert the original mission and purpose of the ICC.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me... but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

America wants its respect.

My Mama always use to tell me, If you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for...

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven

Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it the motherfuckers who need god we'd be aight

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.

You know it's funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

If you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.

Always aim for right and avoid doing wrong at all costs.

Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pensée.

When 'all is permitted' in the fight against terror, a counter-terrorist starts to become indistinguishable from the initial terrorist. Furthermore, all the terrorists in the world think they are counter-terrorists, merely responding to a prior act of terror. They are not the only ones: it is always possible, and easy, to find a prior violence that supposedly justifies our present violence. But, on this way of reckoning, war will never end.

The thirst for vengeance did not wait for Islam to appear in the world, and the appeal to the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is universal.

Comment se réjouir de la victoire sur un ennemi hideux si pour le vaincre il a fallu devenir comme lui? ("La peur des barbares")