Quotes About Justice

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

What if we move to a path to legalization? How do we reconcile that with justice and fairness with those that come here legally?

There were offers from a few Bollywood filmmakers, but I was sceptical as to whether those films will do justice to my vision or even my life. I was also apprehensive because what if I sign an agreement and give the rights to some filmmaker, and he shelves the project?

What if every high-caliber chef told our investors that for every fancy restaurant we build, it would be a requirement to build one in the hood as well?

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

We must allow people to agitate for whatever they want. They must be allowed to campaign for their views.

The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don't take whatever case walks in the door. You evaluate the case; you make your best judgement. You only go forward if you believe that the defendant is guilty.

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

I'm not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.

The ANC must ensure that South Africa does not become a mafia state because once you reach that state, all the wheels have come off.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Healthcare is a human right. No one should face bankruptcy or death because of lack of healthcare. All Americans - regardless of their health or residential status - should be able to access the healthcare they need, whenever they need it.