Quotes About Justice

At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.

I pray for that good woman. At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.

Any rapist would feel pretty dang upset to see his car packed full with rotting fish heads and limburger cheese...Also, if the 542 women responsible were crowded onto the street where he lived, insisting that he move himself and his stinky car to another locale. Nobody likes to be pelted with 2060 bloody tampons.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

If we don't do better than those we accuse, we have no right to complain.

Für mich hat jeder Mensch das Recht, sich zu verändern, und wenn jemand dabei ein wertvolles Mitglied einer Gesellschaft wird, dann soll er auch die damit verbundenen Chancen bekommen, sofern er sich klar von Vergehen distanziert und dafür gezahlt oder gebüßt hat. Ich habe jetzt acht harte Jahre hinter mir, mit allem, was man sich vorstellen kann, mit Bombendrohungen und Gerichtsverhandlungen, und denke schon, dass ich inzwischen einen Beitrag für diese Gesellschaft leiste.

same-sex marriage

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.

First, the long emancipation centered on the resolute commitment of a few men and women—most of them black slaves, along with former slaves and the descendants of slaves—to end slavery and create a slaveless world.

We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

An order went out on October 15, 1522, naming Cortés governor, captain general, and chief justice of New Spain.

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.