Quotes About Justice

Capital punishment is an appropriate punishment for rape.

No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

Evil gains work their punishment.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.

Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don't deserve punishment, then that law should be scrapped or changed.

I wanted to say I don't agree with capital punishment.