Quotes About Justice

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.