Quotes About Justice

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

Power to the peaceful!

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.