Quotes About Justice

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

The Legislative has no Right to absolute arbitrary Power over the Lives and Fortunes of the People: Nor can Mortals assume a Prerogative not only too high for Men but for Angels, and therefore reserv'd for the Exercise of the Deity alone.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

It is so mean of people," he exclaimed to himself, "to inflict an injury of this sort, and then shirk facing those whom they have injured; let us hope that, at any rate, they and I may meet in Heaven". But of this he was doubtful, for when people had done so great a wrong as this, it was hardly to be supposed that they would go to Heaven at all - and as for his meeting them in another place, the idea never so much as entered his mind.

There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

My country, 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing:Land where my fathers died,Land of the pilgrims' pride,From every mountainsideLet freedom ring.

My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died! Land of the Pilgrims' pride! From ev'ry mountainside, Let freedom ring!

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Nothing so concentrates the mind as the sight of the gallows.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It is also a matter of greater consensus than ever that the high and equal status of human beings entitles them to some basic political freedoms, such as the rights to speak and to be free from torture. When it comes to what share people ought to get of the good things in life, however, consensus is much harder to achieve.

But strictly speaking, human rights do not necessarily call for a modicum of distributive equality. And a concern for human rights, including economic and social rights, has risen as moral commitments to distributive equality fell.

Human rights were cut off from the dream of globally fair distribution that the global south itself advocated during the 1970s.

Worse, human rights lost their original connection with a larger egalitarian aspiration, focusing on sufficient provision instead.

Their extremism indicates, rather, that in the revolutionary era and especially during Jacobin rule, it became more and more the common sense that some sort of "reasonable" equality in the distribution of the good things in life was both feasible and necessary.18

I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.