Quotes About Justice

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.

The great God, in a way of bounty, may often bestow upon us vastly beyond what our little services can ever pretend to have deserved, but He never punishes beyond our deserts.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Reconoce que si la libertad para los poderosos y los inteligentes significa la explotación de los débiles y menos talentosos, entonces habrá que limitar la libertad de los poderosos y los inteligentes.

All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree.

democracy and freedom began bouncing all over the world like bad checks

When the press characterized the Simpson trial as the trial of the century, in a century in which the Nuremberg trials had occurred, were they saying that this one blonde was worth more than all the victims of the Nazis? That this trial was more important than tribunals for the murderers from Serbia and Rwanda?

It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends, not on having the walls of their porticoes covered with laws, but on having justice in their hearts.

Under that democracy, license was not confounded with freedom. Political 'equality' has been understood in two senses: as meaning either that all are to share absolutely alike, or that every man is to receive his due. Our ancestors preferred that 'equality' which does not efface the distinction between merit and worthlessness.

Their successors, instead of ruling for the good of their subjects, tyrannize for their own; and they met with the fate of tyrants. No person not reckless of the past could wish to imitate them. The earlier and the later experiences of Athens prove, in fact, two things: that Attica produces good men, and that empire spoils them.

Better no law than laws not enforced.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

We all have a secret wound which we are fighting to avenge.

I felt cheated and I decided to demand justice of the sultan.

In the seed of the city of the just, a malignant seed is hidden, in its turn: the certainty and pride of being in the right -- and of being more just than the many others who call themselves more just than the just. This seed ferments in bitterness, rivalry, resentment; and the natural desire for revenge on the unjust is colored by a yearning to be in their place and to act as they do.

When examples of openness of thought come from a single ruler, they count for nothing, except to show that he alone can afford to be like that because he is king.

È dell'uomo attendere. Dell'uomo giusto, attendere con fiducia; dell'ingiusto, con paura.

When you kill, you always kill the wrong man.

Passé un certain point, plus d'énergie signifie moins d'équité. Au rythme du plus rapide moyen de transport, on voit gonfler le traitement de faveur réservé à quelques-uns aux frais des autres.

The hope has vanished that the problem of justly distributing goods can be sidetracked by creating an abundance of them. The cost of the minimum packages capable of satisfying modern tastes has skyrocketed, and what makes tastes modern is their obsolescense prior even to satisfaction.

We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.