Quotes About Justice

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen? Like Royalty, she goes her way, Laying foundations every day, Though not for Public Buildings, yet For Custard, Cake and Omelette.... No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen, Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

The Nation observed, "If you steal $25, you're a thief. If you steal $250,000, you're an embezzler. If you steal $2,500,000, you're a financier.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

I recognize without hesitation that judges do and must legislate, but they can do so only interstitially; they are confined from molar to molecular motions.

For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part…. If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business [wiretapping], it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to succeed.

Great cases like hard cases make bad law.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

was no mean achievement to have given a Bill of Rights to a country that, until then, had never known any kind of freedom.

In a world where liberty is in very short supply, there are worse heroes than a man who never stopped worshiping freedom.

There were no peasants doffing their hats here; no one was exempt from paying taxes; all men, in fact, were born equal.

Beyond an ethic of law (certainly not within it as far as the Christian is concerned) we are called, as we gradually deepen our faith, to invent a paradoxical morality, that of creative love. This morality gives precedence to the person, the mystery of the person's nature and destiny, over social ideas of right and justice.

La poésie est l'arme du pauvre.

La poésie est l'arme de la révolte.