Quotes About Justice

Man is armed with craft and courage, which, untamed by justice, he will most wickedly pervert, and become at once the most impious and the fiercest of monsters.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

The law itself is accused of iniquity, and impeached, like the orators of Athens when they have persuaded the assembly to pass unjust decrees.

It is not to avoid cold or hunger that tyrants cover themselves with blood; and states decree the most illustrious rewards, not to him who catches a thief, but to him who kills an usurper.

On a similar principle they consider that to know right and wrong is nothing clever, because what the laws speak about it cannot be hard to understand. But this is not justice, except incidentally: it is when actions are done or awards are made in a certain way that they become just.

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

Men fancy that because doing wrong is in their own power, therefore to be just is easy. But it is not so: to lie with one's neighbour's wife, and to strike some one near, and the giving with the hand the bribe ... are easy acts, and in men's own power; but to do these things with the particular disposition is neither easy nor in their power.

Discontents arise not merely from the inequality of possessions, but from the equality of honors. The multitude complain that property is unjustly, because unequally, distributed; men of superior merit or superior pretentions complain that honors are unjustly, if equally, distributed.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Law is mind without reason.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

I think they overregulate the bottom because it's harder to regulate the top.

A man could find himself in court on trivial or trumped-up charges, his fortune, home or life forfeit.

The mass execution was ordered by Raúl Castro and attended by him personally. Nor was it an isolated instance; other officers in Castro's guerrilla forces shot ex-soldiers en masse without a trial, without any charges of any kind lodged against them, simply as an act of reprisal against the defeated army.

It was like a murder trial in which the district attorney, asked who has been killed, says he doesn't know; and asked about the corpse, says there is no corpse. Imagine killing a figment of someone's imagination.

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius

For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.

Bovendien, hoe kun je tegen de doodstraf zijn en zelfmoord goedkeuren? Als het oordeel van een rechter of een jury verkeerd kan uitvallen, dan is ook jouw oordeel twijfelachtig, misschien onjuist.

Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn't the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!

the change is at hand-the old order is cracking. It has been said that 'the cure for democracy is more democracy

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.