Quotes About Justice

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

Rule number one. The good guys always win.Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again.

That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.