Quotes About Justice

Every society gets the criminals it deserves" is her philosophy. "And the police force it's willing to pay for, rather than the one it insists upon.

Green's first victim was found on the North York Moors, which is why the papers called him the 'Beast of Whitby'. He went on to rape and kill at least two more children, one of whom he lured into his van using kittens that he'd collected from a local animal shelter. He pleaded guilty to the murders, but died within a year, beaten to death in a prison exercise yard

Joe doesn't subscribe to the theory that we get the luck we deserve. Fairness is a hair color, not something to be balanced on a set of scales.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Fairness is a hair colour not something to be balanced on a set of scales.

Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

Fines register moral disapproval, whereas fees are simply prices that imply no moral judgment.

End affirmative action. We've had a black president, black cabinet members from both parties, a black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

If you have to injure someone, then make it so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

in every war, both sides believe they are in the right.

It is better to exist unknown to the law.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

The Liberty Principle: It is a higher moral principle to always seek liberty with someone else's liberty in mind, and never seek liberty when it leads to someone else's loss of liberty through force or fraud. The Liberty Principle is an extrapolation from the fundamental principle of all liberty as practiced in Western society: The freedom to believe and act as we choose so long as our beliefs and actions do not infringe on the equal freedom of others.

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."3 It was one of the greatest speeches of Dr. King's career

It makes people believe if we just get back to those principles, like police brutalising and jailing homosexuals, we can be good once again.

Once moral progress in a particular area is under way, most religions eventually get on board—as in the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century, women's rights in the twentieth century, and gay rights in the twenty-first century—but this often happens after a shamefully protracted lag time.

Putting teeth into the law, India listed all cetacean species in Schedule II, Part I of the Wild Life Protection Act of 1972, adding that dolphins should be considered as "nonhuman persons."63 This granting of legal personhood to a nonhuman animal is a monumental step toward justice and freedom for all sentient beings.

The Leviathan reduces violence by asserting a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, thereby replacing what criminologists call "self-help justice"—in which individuals settle their own scores and disputes, often violently (such as the Mafia)—with criminal justice, leading overall to a decrease in violence.

What about the flip side of the economic ledger – the poor? Even Jesus gave up hope for them and offered only early entrance to heaven.

The truth is only irrelevent when its beneficial

Im for rules but when rules conflicts humanity i will stand against it at all cost

We are lucidly aware that achieving through mere physical force establishes the rules of a game from which there is no escape. When one grants oneself the moral justification to use force, one cannot logically deny it in one's enemies, for all moralities are relative. The dissimilarity between different human cultures alone suggests that one cannot establish universal goods and evils.

Constitutional applicability equal to U.S. Citizens under Law is as much for a one person solitarily as it is so for the masses. Tides will part to right reason and can do so of a single idea.