Quotes About Justice

This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent.

All too often guilt was a matter of timing. Y. S., who ran away when her village was bombed, was sentenced to six months' labour camp 'for deserting her place of work', while A. S., who refused to leave her home when the Germans were approaching, was condemned in absentia as a 'traitor to the Motherland'. A minimum of ten years in a Gulag labour camp awaited her.

I would have drawn and quartered him, and I hope you do, said Richard, his eyes sparkling.

I understand that I may not be responsible for the things he's done. But I am responsible for what I've done.

There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom

If half this country feels so threatened by two people of the same gender being in love and having sex (and, incidentally, enjoying equal protection under the law), that they turn their attention—during wartime—to blocking rights already denied to homosexuals, then all the cardio striptease classes in the world aren't going to render us sexually liberated.

The whole point is that everybody gets to marry the person they love.

Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland…those are the games men play. We see it differently. We want to be neither oppressor nor oppressed.

The Supreme Court could have said, You're just these fringe women in combat boots. But they didn't.

A pior forma de desigualdade é tentar fazer duas coisas diferentes serem iguais.

Wenn auf der Erde Liebe herrschen würde, wären alle Gesetze entbehrlich.

La excelencia moral es resultado del hábito. Nos volvemos justos realizando actos de justicia; templados, realizando actos de templanza; valientes, realizando actos de valentía.

For I have been called among the deep thinkers the worse cause on this very account, that I first contrived how to speak against both law and justice; and this art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious.

Denn es sind immer die Unterlegenen, die Gleichheit und Recht suchen, während die Mächtigen sich darum nicht scheren.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The Law is Reason free from Passion.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.