Quotes About Justice

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely.

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

That is our generation's task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.