Quotes About Justice

I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.

Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the second time, it's always easier. You just have to push for your rights.

The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

There was a law against Luke.

So," the bearded man said, "we kill this man

When the good holds sway) it breeds intolerance, rigidity, a belief that because I am right, those who don't believe as I do are wrong. - Palidine, Chief God of Good

My purpose was simply to diminish that mass of contradictions and abuses which eventually turn legal procedure into a wilderness where decent people hardly dare venture, and where bandits abound.

One is always punished out of season.

Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to other, more just legislation.

Outre qu'il est fatigant d'écouter debout dans la foule un long morceau d'éloquence, entendre tonner contre les ennemis du régime n'est pas un pur plaisir quand on tient soi-même de plus près qu'on ne voudrait aux suspects et aux condamnés.

Langzamerhand, zoals in alle processen waarvoor de nieuwsgierigen een poos lang warmlopen, zag men hoe zich op twee verschillende plannen twee wonderlijk ongelijksoortige zaken aftekenden: het geval zoals het zich presenteert voor de rechtsgeleerden en de geestelijken wier taak het is te berechten, en het geval zoals het wordt gefantaseerd door de massa die monsters en slachtoffers wil.

Ogni legge trasgredita troppo spesso è cattiva; spetta al legislatore abrogarla o emendarla, per impedire che il dispregio in cui è caduta quella stolta ordinanza si estenda ad altre leggi più giuste.

Il est étrange que pour nos chrétiens les prétendues désordres de la chair constituent le mal par excellence, dit méditativement Zénon. Personne ne punit avec rage et dégoût la brutalité, la sauvagerie, la barbarie, l'injustice. Nul demain ne s'avisera de trouver obscènes les bonnes gens qui viendront regarder mes tressautements dans les flammes.

Je suis contre le particularisme de pays, religion, d'espece. Ne comptez pas sur moi pour faire du particularisme de sexe. Je crois qu'une bonne femme vaut un homme bon, qu'une femme intelligente vaut un homme intelligent. C'est une verite simple.

Here's the deal: in a perfect world, sanitary protection would be freely available to all.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.