Quotes About Justice

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.

?Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear That righteous men injustice shun, And virtuous men hold virtue dear: An inward voice they seem to hear, Which tells them duty must be done.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty, when the state becomes lawless or corrupt

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

Be the change we wish to see in the world

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, it was a European habit to distinguish between civilized wars and colonial wars. The laws of war applied to wars among the civilized nation-states, but laws of nature were said to apply to colonial wars

Atrocity cannot be its own explanation. Violence cannot be allowed to speak for itself, for violence is not its own meaning. To be made thinkable it needs to be historicized.

There can be no reconciliation without a reorganization of power.

Although the denazification process was widely reviled in Germany and beyond, in the aftermath of the Cold War, the logic of Nuremberg was revived in postcolonial contexts under the name of transitional justice, which repackages criminalization and victim's justice in the language of human rights. The

The moral certainty about preventing another genocide imparts a moral justification to the pursuit of power with impunity.

Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law. And civilization was only a thin veneer over the savagery and greed that were the human default.

It is better to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death

Mass murders seem to be an American

There are lots of good cops around. Dumb guys who are good cops. Inflexible, limited, tough, self-satisfied types who are all good cops. It would be better if there were a few more good guys who were cops." His

The very idea of militia comprises a far greater danger to society than any single criminal or gang. It paves the way for lynch mentality and arbitrary administration of justice. It throws the protective mechanism of society out of gear.

Una vez es suficiente —explicó el maestro— cuando el juez, tras el análisis de la causa, se decida por el perdón. Diez veces, sin embargo, deberá pensar el magistrado siempre que esté inclinado a dar sentencia condenatoria

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.