Quotes About Justice

You cannot have peaceful means - peaceful means will have to be used to bring about peaceful ends. If you use destructive means, you're going to bring about destructive ends.

There is no freedom in peaceful slavery.

Actions always speak louder than words, especially when they're peaceful actions.

I want a country where you can express different ideas peacefully and not be bothered and arrested unfairly for it. I want a country where you shouldn't be scared to say that you are an atheist, for example.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992.

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a lot of time on civil liberties. It's something that's very important to me and I think a lot of my peers.

The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because it was easy to see it was corrupted.

I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

I believe in the death penalty.

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.

We must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the federal death penalty in our country.

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

I am against the death penalty.