Quotes About Justice

In time of war the laws are silent.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In times of war, the law falls silent. Silent enim leges inter arma

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

God, if she considered it, seemed awfully cruel and violent, blowing people's houses down, washing out the coastline. Such a God, Allison was sure, would have to be a man, and not a particularly nice one.

With us, love is just as punishable as murder or robbery…

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

It is true that some public defenders are good lawyers and want to be effective advocates, but the institution is structured, so as to discourage their efforts.

A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult.

She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man may escape this death by becoming the hangman, a woman by marrying the hangman. But at the present time there is no hangman; thus there is no escape. There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This is not fantasy, it is history.

It came with a stirring of the conviction that was never to leave her: that human being, whatever his color or creed or sex, had certain inalienable rights which other human beings had no right to violate.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

It didn't even seem ironic to him that he should be planning remarks about truth and justice when, in fact, his whole life had been a marathon race, with truth a few jumps ahead of him and justice a few jumps behind. He had never caught up with the one, and the other had never caught up with him.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

Oh my," she said, feigning innocent. She fanned a hand over her face. "Revenge is so sweet!

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.

it seems as if people fought hardest against those who had a little more than themselves or often a little less, instead of the lugs who got richer and richer.

A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking about. The women with the flowers threw them down for him. "That's Robert Speer," one said. "Something like that. He's our man.

There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.