Quotes About Justice

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. - Potter Stewart

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well the suspicious. - Hugo L. Black

Some Americans responded brutally to such docility: in two separate incidents on 14 July, an officer and an NCO of the U.S. 45th Division murdered large groups of Italians in cold blood. One, Sgt. Horace West, who killed thirty-seven with a Thompson submachine gun, was convicted by a court-martial, but later granted clemency. The other, Capt. John Compton, assembled a firing squad which massacred thirty-six Italian prisoners.

It seems a fair test of any political movement to enquire not whether it is capitalist, communist or fascist, but whether it is fundamentally humane.

In the course of the war, 168,000 Soviet citizens were formally sentenced to death and executed for alleged cowardice or desertion;

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right.

He who has might has—right; if you have not the former, neither have you the latter. Is this wisdom so hard to attain?

Wer die Gewalt hat, der hat – Recht; habt Ihr jene nicht, so habt Ihr auch dieses nicht. Ist diese Weisheit so schwer zu erlangen? Seht doch die Gewaltigen und ihr Tun an!

After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raising of a young man in the world than punctuality and justice in all his dealings;

The fortunate man is seldom satisfied with the fact of being fortunate, beyond this he needs to know that he has a right to his good fortune. He wants to be convinced he deserves it and above all that he deserves it in comparison with others. Good fortune, thus wants to be legitimate fortune.

Perhaps the spreading of fake news shouldn`t be criminalized as a felony, but it must be penalized in some way, and there should at least be court trials for that.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Terror is nothing other than prompt, stern, inflexible justice; terror thus issues from virtue; it is less a particular maxim than a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to the most pressing needs of the fatherland.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

This thing that men call justice, this blind snake that strikes men down in the dark, mindless with fury, keep your hand back from it, pass by in silence.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Without law men are beasts.

As for justice, who has once seen it done?