Quotes About Justice

Napoleon taught the world, or perhaps only satisfied a latent longing and gave it shape and hope, to want to be rewarded, visibly, definitely, let us say inorganically, for its deeds. Curiously enough, this mode of thought is even commoner among women than men ; the postulation of an infallible judge somewhere, somehow, who will examine work done and measure it exactly and register it in a stepped list of rewards.

No human being is entirely innocent

You saw the race riots in Watts. . . . Do nice people go around burning and looting — and even killing? Not since last night. When our Marines razed a village outside Khe Sanh in North Vietnam.

A poor man might count for very little, but he was still free and white, which at least made him better than a free black or a slave, and in a society deeply dominated by class and caste, that was something worth fighting for.

Many persons have of late left off the use of West-India sugar on account of the iniquitous manner in which it is obtained. Those families who have done so, and have not substituted any thing else in its place, have not only cleansed their hands of blood, but have made a saving to their families, some of six pence, and some of a shilling a week. If this, or a part of this were appropriated to the uses before-mentioned, it would abundantly suffice

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

The law of nature bids a man not starve in the midst of plenty, and forbids his being punished for taking food wherever he can find it. Your law of nature is sitting at Westminster.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

He'll be given everything he's entitled to under the Geneva Convention. We don't want to be accused of doing to him what they did to you.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.

Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.

The problem is that those who produce the emissions do not pay for that privilege, and those who are harmed are not compensated.

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like. Edward, First Baron Thurlow

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

King- Hamilton, Judge Alan ( b 1900 )'...I think he erred on the side of severity when he gave Janie Jones, the notorious madame, seven years after the jury had acquitted her'. 'Well, these things are relative of course. It all depends on what you've been acquitted of. Miss Jones was innocent of a very serious offence.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

What is morally wrong cannot be politically right.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.