Quotes About Justice

Nel mondo ha sempre regnato un ordine: sopra quelli che devono stare sopra e sotto quelli che devono stare sotto.

You're a cop aren't you? A private detective. Isn't that the same thing? The cops guarantee order. All I do is uncover disorder.

la ragione e il torto non si dividon mai con un taglio cosí netto, che ogni parte abbia soltanto dell'una o dell'altro.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

Women hold up half the sky.

Robespierristes, antirobespierristes, nous vous crions grâce: par pitié, dites-nous, simplement, quel fut Robespierre.

For example instead of "Thou shall not kill," try "Thou shall not murder." There's a big difference between those two, and you had better learn it. If you believe in the not-kill part, you're fucked if you meet someone who doesn't. If you adhere to the not-murder view, however, you can, if necessary, kill someone.

Ours is not a justice system. Ours is a legal system.

The idea that you have to be able to prove something for it to be real has run amuck in our judicial system to the point that these days you damn near need a videotape to get a conviction

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

According to another contemporary author, writing in the 970s, the king ordered that thieves and robbers were to be punished by having their eyes put out, their ears ripped off, their nostrils carved open and their hands and feet removed, before being scalped and left in the open fields at night to be eaten by wild beasts and birds.

he decided that his only remaining option was to take his case to Rome.

You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal.

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

I made him just and right, sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

Out of our evil seek to bring forth good

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

Whom hast thou then, or what, to accuse, but heaven's free love dealt equally t'all?

La fuerza separada de la verdad y de la justicia no es digna de alabanza y sólo merece el desprecio y la ignominia, aunque jactanciosa aspire a la gloria y busque el renombre por la infamia: sea por tanto un eterno silencio su castigo.

This yet I apprehend not, why to those   Among whom God will deigne to dwell on Earth   So many and so various Laws are giv'n;   So many Laws argue so many sins   Among them; how can God with such reside?

Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge

Ah, why should all mankind For one mans fault thus guiltless be condemn'd, If guiltless? But

For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men: the rest love not freedom, but license: which never hath more scope, or more indulgence than under tyrants.