Quotes About Justice

ISIS violates every single principle of the law of war.

Now is not the time to grow weary in the face of evil. Now is not the time to allow our hunger for peace to obscure our enemy's desire for war. Innocent lives are at stake, and immense evil is on the march. Let's call our nation to action again.

the Enlightenment dream of inevitable human progress, grounded in the claim that we are all born free and equal in dignity and rights, and premised on hope that the arc of history bends toward justice, is now in tatters.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

God is on everyone's side and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Just punishment, which observes restraints, is different from revenge, which knows no limits.

We must never lose the language of justice, for it reminds us of what is at stake and of the importance of keeping justice itself alive in how we fight.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

S'il fallait condamner Tous les ingrats qui sont au monde, A qui pourrait-on pardonner?

We cannot prove that privileged owe something to the rest, any more than we can prove that theft is wrong.

if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

Some just wanted to be on the side of the good cookies.

This guy is a real pain. I want to remind him that we're the good guys. We're not up at 4 a.m. because we like the way it feels.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Ä°yilikte bir ÅŸey yok. Güzel ve zengin olunca elbette iyi olur insan. Mesele adil olmakta. Ama bu adaletsizlikte hizmetçi ol da iyi ol bakal?m!

My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman.

Il faut le tuer, dit-il.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

This is my client Trent. I'm going to defend him vigorously, because that's my job. When he looks at you today, he has to see a group of people who are willing to be fair and impartial. Please think about those words—fair and impartial. Because, believe me, if it were you in this chair, or your mother, or your child, you'd be as desperate to have fair and impartial jurors as he is right now.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.