Quotes About Justice

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of that universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Sweet is revenge - especially to women.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

When Christian leaders act unjustly, it reflects on the character of God. Unbelievers watch and decide that if Christians are like that, their God must also be unjust.

An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.

Without question, his picture did not do him justice, but again, he was dead when it was taken

Just because you have not been caught for doing it yet, does not make what you are doing legal.

Profit at the expense of no one.

Revenge. Sweet lasting revenge. And now it was time for all of us to get a taste.

I did my job," the lawyer said. "The sworn oath of the mediocre," Father Bobby said.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. --George Bernard Shaw

Si mañana me fusilan, fusilarán a un general que ha hecho honor a su palabra y a sus juramentos militares. Pero si mañana le fusilan a usted, fusilarán a un general que ha faltado a su palabra y a su honor

El buen Dios no debería dejar que se pueda joder a otro sin verle llorar, sin oír sus gritos, sin sentir su dolor y cargarlo en la memoria

If there was any justice in the war at all, it was a rich man's fight just as much as it was a poor man's; and when the time came for deciding who should and who should not take a turn on the battlefield, the chances ought to have been equal, between the rich men and the poor men, of drawing prizes or blanks in the lottery.

Maybe her father would not have been so stressed that he had a heart attack and died. Kit was so smart, her grades so good—she would have gone to university. She'd have had her self-esteem. Her life would have been different. The cops would have charged Jon and the others. But I didn't speak.

Kit Darling has become a celebrity. An underdog's hero. Everyone is rooting for her." "Charge her with what?" asks Ben. "Fraud? Extortion? Obstruction of justice? Staging a false scene—isn't that a criminal offense?" Renata says, "Usually a false scene relates to falsifying evidence in order to obscure or obfuscate a real homicide investigation.