Quotes About Justice

The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward egalite and justice -- the foundation stones for a sound democracy.

It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

The people who hired me have been shot. The people who shot them have been shot.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

Uprising by oppressed people, like slave and peasant rebellions have existed as long as civilisation has existed. But revolutions are more than just uprisings , they are concerted attempts to reorganise society.

Force and rape are not an issue because he is a believing Muslim and he is an Osman Mahamud.

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

40 percent of arrests for drug possession in this country are for a drug that 19.8 million of us have used in the past month.

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don't see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws