Quotes About Justice

Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it's not okay for those people to do it themselves?

The point could hardly have been clearer: if the president was pressuring the director because he feared that an investigation of Michael Flynn would damage him, then this was an obstruction of justice.

I can't say, 'I want to put a Protestant on the Court for better representation.' No, you can't say that. But I should be able to. You should be able to have the main religion in this country represented on the Supreme Court.

Trump believed he would never be proven guilty; therefore, he was innocent. And he carried the total confidence and even serenity of the innocent—or at least of someone who knows how difficult it is to establish the guilt of a person capable of admitting nothing, of never wavering.

The theologian and the executioner have been intimates throughout history.

War does not determine who is right, but who is left." —old military proverb Caledonia

If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?

We need to cut off the King´s Head: in political theory that has still to be done.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

and there can't be an area of human activity as utterly boring as the law.

Au métro Sèvres-Babylone, j'ai vu un graffiti étrange: "Dieu a voulu des inégalités, pas des injustices", disait l'inscription. Je me suis demandé qui était cette personne si bien informée des desseins de Dieu.

Curiosamente, la prensa, aunque estaba perdiendo la cuasi totalidad de sus lectores, había incrementado en estos últimos años su poder nocivo, ahora podía arruinar vidas, y no se privaba de hacerlo, sobre todo en período electoral, incluso el recurso de un procedimiento judicial se había vuelto inútil, una simple sospecha bastaba para destruir a alguien

certaines féministes souhaitaient aller plus loin, permettre le prononcé de peines plus lourdes en introduisant la notion de « féminicide » dans le Code pénal, ce que je trouvais plutôt amusant, ça faisait penser à insecticide, ou à raticide.

Su un muro della stazione Sèvres-Babylone ho visto uno strano graffito: DIO HA VOLUTO INEGUAGLIANZE, NON INGIUSTIZIE, c'era scritto. Mi sono chiesto chi potesse essere quella persona così bene informata sulle intenzioni di Dio.

Or si le "pirate" lèse matériellement l'auteur, moralement il lui donne la plus belle des couronnes.

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

Iar razbunarea e aceasta: intrucat noi l-am ucis pe el, el asa mort cum este ne-a luat lumina si cu ochii inchisi i-a inchis pe-ai nostri, care nu mai stralucesc deasupra pamantului.

When it comes to LGBT civil rights, as with other marginalized groups, our fundamental personhood is not an issue that has two sides.

In one particularly witty, stinging passage, he wrote, "Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.