Quotes About Justice

People act poorly because other people have let them act poorly, and they have been able to get away with it for a lifetime. There is no sense of consequence. So I called a lawyer who looked up the

Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer?

But whenever there's the right kind of nut making headlines, a Slasher or an Icepick Prowler, a certain number of people get pistol permits and a certain number of others buy illegal guns. Then some of them get drunk and shoot their wives. None of them ever seems to wind up nailing the Slasher. I

Forcible sodomy and illegal entry, you put them both down and you get a jury confused. They figure it's two ways of saying the same thing.

The Turks have dreary jails.

La culpa se apresura siempre hacia su complemento, el castigo, y sólo allí encuentra satisfacción.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Most people in America don't believe that "God" is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left to wonder whether the Supreme Court might have greater regard for it if it was.

The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.