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Quotes About Justice

Legislation in Violation of God's Natural Law Is a Scourge To Humanity
~ Unknown
The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose,Speaking clearly and most severely,Law is as I've told you before,Law is as you know I suppose,Law is but let me explain it once more,Law is The Law.
~ W. H. Auden
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
~ W. H. Auden
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
~ W. H. Auden
To save your world, you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, asked why?
~ W. H. Auden
I have been played at being a HERO. But I could not bear how FOOLISH I felt every time I spared someone who was determined to kill me." -Elektra (Elektra #1, page 4)
~ Unknown
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
A learned theologian has laid down That starving men may take what's necessary, And yet be sinless.
~ W.B. Yeats
King, whether you did right or wrong in this Let the King say, for all that I need say Is that there's nothing that cries out for death In the withholding of that ancient right
~ W.B. Yeats
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
~ W.H. Auden
If there ever was a man of whom it could be said that he 'hungered and thirsted after righteousness,' it was Kafka.
~ W.H. Auden
In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. 'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.
~ W.H. Auden
Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.
~ Muhammad Ali
I don't have to give [Donald Trump] a chance.
~ Maxine Waters
On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.
~ Larry Correia
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
~ Aaron Eckhart
And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
~ Dave Eggers
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
~ George W. Bush
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
~ Gerry Spence
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.
~ Bill Gates
Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
~ Hans Frank