Quotes About Justice

Plato, who expressed the view that no one should be more than four times richer than the poorest member of the society.

It is against every law of the spirit world that one person can assume responsibility for another's wrongdoing.

magna est veritas, et praevalebit.1

Yes, sah!" Service cried indignantly. "She hold me down, sah!" She know kung fu and chop suey and marital arts, sah!" "Marital arts? Chop suey?" the judge scoffed. "What you talking 'bout, man? One is when a man marry and de odder is Chinese food.

What amazes me is how many people are happy for Saddam to stay. They ask why we don't get rid of Mugabe, why not the Burmese lot. Yes, let's get rid of them all. I don't because I can't, but when you can you should.

All her life she has been led to believe that she is a child born at the end of things: the empire, the era, the reign of men on earth. But in the glow of the scribes' enthusiasm, she senses that in a city like Urbino, beyond the horizon, other possibilities might exist, and in daydreams she takes flight across the Aegean, through her spread fingers, until she alights in a bright clean palace, full of Justice and Moderation, its rooms lined with books, free to anyone who can read them.

We act in the interest of peace.

But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?" "I hope so. I hope we are.

You think that's going to exonerate you?

a world warmer by two degrees centigrade, 150 million more people—most of them poor—will die from air pollution alone. Not violence, not floods, just inferior air.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, in a green-spined hardcover that's right over there, one shelf away, JC179.R, said: You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!

We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new...Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.

Justice is only what a "culture," meaning a shifting majority of people, say it is, with a dollop of respect for "human rights" spread on top, without intellectual foundation, and without any connection with virtue and duty.

Supreme Good and Evil (De finibus)

In the months that followed he brought a rapid succession of cases to court—as he recalled, "smelling somewhat of midnight oil.

Octavian decided that they should be put to death.

Then his colleague Pedius won approval for a bill that made Caesar's killing a crime

It is the judge's responsibility always to seek the truth in trials; while it is the advocate's to make out a case for what is probable, even if it doesn't precisely correspond to the truth.

set on having their day in court and pressed for Caesar's early recall.

terrible penalty exacted on the survivors of Spartacus' final defeat: thousands were crucified

judiciary, it was simply not equipped to execute large numbers of its citizens. The task had to be privatized.

head off if Peernock was apprehended

Unii povestesc c?, în timp ce Socrate p?r?sea curtea, un admirator devotat, dar cam n?tâng, a început s? se vaite, cel mai greu de suportat pentru el fiind faptul c? Socrate a fost condamnat la moarte pe nedrept. «Cum, r?spunse Socrate, încercând s?-l lini?teasc?, ai fi preferat s? fiu condamnat în mod drept?»

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?