Quotes About Justice

As for these people, they vote for what they want, they get what they vote for, and, by God! they deserve nothing better!

Besides Tiberius, Nero, Otho and Vespasian all had their astrologer. Titus, Domitian and Hadrian were sufficiently expert themselves to draw up a horoscope, and Septimius Severus (who married Julia Domna after making enquiries about marriageable daughters of royal blood) dispensed justice in a hall of the palace where his own astral horoscope was painted on the ceiling (DC, 77, 11, 1).

Justice outweighs human life.

You have now learned the valuable lesson, Dee, that law and custom are only there for the common people; they don't apply to exalted persons like me.

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The American government and American people have been and continue to be curiously blind to the cumulative effect our policy decisions have on other people around the world, especially on those who lack political power or economic clout.

Yale political scientist Robert Dahl asked. "And if citizens cannot be political equals, how is democracy to exist?

we should in the interests of accuracy refer not to 'democratic free market capitalism' but to 'plutocratic impunity capitalism'.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

Sometimes I thought I would die and other times wished I had."11 Although the FDA held a hearing on the matter, it did not impose any legal control on benzodiazepines similar to what had been placed on amphetamines and barbiturates, and so the public's belief that the drugs were relatively nonaddictive and harmless survived until 1975, when the U.S. Justice Department demanded that they be classified as schedule IV drugs

May this not be a moment, but a movement.

Wherever I set my foot, not just a courtroom, could be a place of worship. My

In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain" Albert Camus

sandanista or somocista the police is always the police

Nuestras sociedades tienden a tratar las cuestiones sociales con el Código Penal en la mano. Tienden a dar respuestas penales a problemas sociales. De ese modo, también construyen la realidad y contribuyen a moldear el carácter de quienes viven en ella. Los problemas sociales, sin embargo, requieren soluciones sociales. Las

no importarían las "credenciales democráticas" del intérprete si cualquiera de nosotros tendiera a leer el derecho del mismo modo.

We need a seat at the table … If we're not at the table, we're probably on the menu.

whatever peace came from tolerating evil was short-lived. The devil always came to claim his own.

Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.

Honour and courtesy and justice...they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them to us like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims.

That's how it's done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost. That's how you do it.

There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I

Why not break free now, and make Bingtown a place where folk begin anew, all men standing on an equal footing?" "And all women, too." She must be Sparse's daughter, thought Keffria. Even her voice echoed his in tone. Devouchet looked at her in surprise. "It was but a manner of speaking, Ekke," he said mildly. "A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.

We will discover the truth. And face it. And whatever it is, we will go after them. And we will kill them all, like the bastards we are.