Quotes About Justice

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

It's better to fight for something than against something.

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

There is no equal between good and evil.

Those who prey on the weak are weaker than their prey.

Liberté! Égalité! Fraternité! [Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!]

Summum ius summa iniuria [Extreme justice is extreme injustice].

Res iudicata pro veritate habetur [A matter that has been legally decided is considered true].

Sic semper tyrannis [Thus always to tyrants].

Ius est ars boni et aequi [Legal justice is the art of the good and the fair].

De minimis non curat lex [The law is not concerned with trifles].

Fiat justitia ruat coelum [Let justice be done though heaven should fall].

Nemo me impune lacessit [No one provokes me with impunity].

Testis unus testis nullus [A single witness is no witness].

Habeas corpus [You are to produce the person].

Flagrante delicto ["Red-handed"].

The world can be changed not by ending suffering, but by a more judicious distribution of it.

what thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty, thoughtful poor people call with equal justice a problem of riches.

Inequality of outcome among today's generation is the source of the unfair advantage received by the next generation. If we are concerned about equality of opportunity tomorrow, we need to be concerned about inequality of outcome today.

competition policy should embody explicit distributional concerns. It

it is wrong to see today's high inequality as the product of forces over which we have no control,