Quotes About Justice

Alaca??m hiçbir ?ey kalmas?n diye vermem gerekenden fazlas?n? verdim ve bunun için ?imdiden cezaland?r?ld?m.

We must all agree that legality would be a fine thing for social scoundrelism IF THERE WERE NO GOD.

You are so unlucky as to walk off with something or other belonging to somebody else, and they exhibit you as a curiosity in the Place du Palais-de-Justice; you steal a million, and you are pointed out in every salon as a model of virtue. And you pay thirty millions for the police and the courts of justice, for the maintenance of law and order! A pretty slate of things it is!

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth is capable of converting it into a fact.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

La potenza non consiste nel colpire forte o spesso, ma nel colpire giusto".

Clarissa Harlowe

You have less pity than the executioner

Les lois sont des toiles d'araignée à travers lesquelles passent les grosses mouches et où restent les petites

The fires of remorse burned in his heart, and gave him intolerable pain, the generous secret remorse which men seldom take into account when they sit in judgement upon their fellow-men; but perhaps the angels in heaven, beholding it, pardon the criminal whom our justice condemns.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

There's no more foolish proverb than the one which says that dead men tell no tales. To help dead men to find their tongues is one of the chief uses of the Law.

The law plays fast and loose with reality- and no one really believes it.

A good and faithful judge prefers what is right to what is expedient.

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Scholars dispute and the case is still before the courts.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

"Why did you kill her?" the policeman in the rear seat asked…. "They shoot horses, don't they?" I said.