Quotes About Justice

No legal system can maintain justice unless every participant — magisters, prosecutors, Legums, defendants, witnesses, all — risks life itself in whatever dispute comes before the bar. Everything must be risked in the Courtarena. If any element remains outside the contest and without personal risk, justice inevitably fails. — Gowachin Law

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations.

Bitterness I understand, the Duke said. But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and freedom to use them.

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that

I choose to ally myself against any force which brings humiliation upon humankind.

Peace punishes mistakes without rewarding brilliance.

What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent—he solves." "How?" "In the simplest way: he decides." "Keeping his friends and destroying his enemies.

Law must retain useful ways to break with traditional forms because nothing is more certain than that the forms of Law remain when all justice is gone. — Gowachin aphorism

Alzó cuatro nudosos dedos—: la erudición de los sabios, la justicia de los poderosos, las plegarias de los justos y el coraje de los valerosos. Pero eso no vale nada... —Cerró los dedos en un puño— sin un gobernante que conozca el arte de gobernar.

Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.

the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.

Bitterness I understand," the Duke said. "But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

Existe un límite a la fuerza que hasta los más poderosos pueden aplicar sin destruirse a sí mismos. Calcular dicho límite es el auténtico arte de gobernar. El mal uso del poder es un pecado fatal. La ley no puede ser un instrumento de venganza, nunca un rehén y tampoco un refugio contra los mártires que ha creado. Uno no puede amenazar a un individuo y librarse de las consecuencias. Muad'Dib sobre la ley, Comentarios de Stilgar

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without

The Duke felt in this moment that his own dearest dream was to end all class distinctions and never again think of deadly order.

Past civilizations without number have foundered on the rocks of equal justice. Such foolishness destroys the natural hierarchies which are far more important. Any individual takes on significance only in his relationship to your total society.

Justice? Who asks for justice. We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis—win or die. Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? -Bene Gesserit Council Proceedings: Archives #XOX232

The spirit of Muad'Dib is more than words, more than the letter of the Law which arises in his name. Muad'Dib must always be that inner outrage against the complacently powerful, against the charlatans and the dogmatic fanatics. It is that inner outrage which must have its say because Muad'Dib taught us one thing above all others: that humans can endure only in a fraternity of social justice.

Grave isto na memória, rapaz: um mundo é sustentado por quatro coisas... o conhecimento dos sábios, a justiça dos poderosos, a prece dos justos e a coragem dos bravos. Mas tudo isso de nada vale... sem um governante que conheça a arte de governar.

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.