Quotes About Justice

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. ...The law is a causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a citizen may walk safely.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons . . . And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, . . . the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down . . . do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I would give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake."

The characterization of entire groups as victims has underwritten the conviction that such groups may never be subjected to criticism of any kind.

Wall Street criminality is growing by leaps. There are no bounds.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

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

For a' that and a' that,It's coming yet, for a' that,That man to man the world o'erShall brothers be for a' that.

For a' that, an' a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip, To haud the wretch in order;

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It is hard to believe that Lenin would not have won the case had his health permitted him to argue it before the court of the party congress. But when the

I intend to open this country up to democracy and anyone who is against that I will jail, I will crush."—João Baptista Figueiredo, President of Brazil (1979)

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Tweere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

Treating everyone equally means ignoring their differences, elevating the less skillful and suppressing those who excel.

If the scapegoat appears too weak and his punishment too cruel, you may end up the victim of your own device.

On the eleventh day the vizier was called before the sultan, the charges were repeated, and the sultan watched as the vizier was tied up and thrown to the dogs. Yet when the beasts saw him, they ran up to him with wagging tails. They nibbled affectionately at his shoulders and began playing with him.

People who accuse you of being unfair, for example, who try to make you feel guilty, who talk about justice and morality, are trying to gain an advantage on the chessboard.

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

There was a time, in fact, I think the time of the first World War, when it could not have been said that war-inciting or war making was a crime in law, however reprehensible in morals. Of course, it was, under the law of all civilized peoples, a crime for one man with his bare knuckles to assault another. How did it come that multiplying this crime by a million, and adding fire arms to bare knuckles, made it a legally innocent act?