Quotes About Justice

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities. We may be wrong. We may be trying to return a guilty man to the community. No one can really know. But we have a reasonable doubt, and this is a safeguard that has enormous value in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure. We nine can't understand how you three are still so sure. Maybe you can tell us.

History is a struggle between the "old" right that intended to be just and the "new" that promises to be.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits — the relevant fruits — are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits

Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Teachers of morals who do not see the difference between the problem of charity within the limits of an accepted social system and the problem of justice between economic groups, holding uneven power within modern industrial society, have simply not faced the most obvious differences between the morals of groups and those of individuals.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Yo soy un ser que piensa, siente, quiere, ama y odia; esta naturaleza que me rodea es bella y luminosa, y la vida nos ha sido dada por un Dios justo y benévolo, para vivirla con entereza y plenitud.»

El mejor modo de castigar a los humanos, es dándoles lo que tanto reclaman.

The high priest Caiaphas alludes to this mechanism when he says, "It is better that one man die and that the whole nation not perish." The four accounts of the Crucifix-ion thus enable us to witness the unfolding of the working of the single victim mechanism. The sequence of events, as I have already said, resembles numerous analogous phenomena whose director and producer is Satan. The

Ik erken geen werkelijkheid die vooral voordeel biedt aan net die helft van de mensheid waartoe ik niet behoor. Die houding kan ik iedereen aanbevelen. Voor mij is het niet nodig, de werkelijkheid te begrijpen of te bezweren. Het is nodig, er korte metten mee te maken. Al het andere is capitulatie – collaboratie zelfs.

If death row is a sharp punishment, life without parole can be an endless torture.

believe we can carry both the pain of the victim and the truth of the accused without doing disservice to either.

She thinks about how sad it is that we remember the killers and not their victims.

Even a first-year law student knows that you can't curtail the right of one person to speak because other people get disorderly.

What "value" is taught when school administrators thumb their noses at the highest court in the land and continue illegal practices?

work by George Grant called Legislating Immorality, which called for the execution of all gay people, but was kind enough to qualify it in a footnote by saying that in our judicial system we would have to give them a trial first.

The promise of anyone seeking to be on the federal bench, the Supreme Court in particular, must again be—not to serve as Chief Justice Roberts's "referee" but to do what is necessary to serve that one great overarching value of American democracy: to serve as a constraint on the otherwise overarching tyranny of the majority (and their political allies) for us and future generations.