Quotes About Justice

America also has sinned grievously since 1973 in allowing, by law, the killing of as many as fifty five million American babies in, and emerging from, their mothers' wombs. Does anyone seriously think that this carnage would have been allowed to happen if the Church had arisen with one voice and said 'we will not abide the legalized murder of our children in the womb'?

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

I told him that I thought it was law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

Law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

Por donde sea que el estandarte de la libertad y la independencia se haya desplegado o se vaya a desplegar, ahí estarán su corazón, sus bendiciones y sus plegarias. Pero no irán a ultramar en busca de monstruos que destruir. Desearán la libertad y la independencia de todos, pero sólo serán paladines y justificadores de sí mismos.

After all, there is in more stable, developed countries like the United States and Britain a quantifiably more vicious culture of child abuse. A report released in January 2010 by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics made clear that sexual abuse in juvenile detention is a national crisis. Some 12.1 percent of 26,550 children represented in the survey by a sample of 9,000 who were interviewed said they had been sexually abused at their current facility during the preceding year,

Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.

The limitation of liberty is justified only when it is necessary for liberty itself, to prevent an invasion of freedom that would be still worse.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place

a fim de tratar as pessoas igualitariamente, a sociedade deve dar atenção àqueles com menos dotes inatos e aos oriundos de posições sociais menos favoráveis. A ideia é de reparar o desvio das contingências na direção da igualdade

Along with such things as free and regular elections and an independent judiciary empowered to interpret the constitution (not necessarily written), civil disobedience used with due restraint and sound judgment helps to maintain and strengthen just institutions.

It may be expedient but it is not just that some should have less in order that others may prosper.

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Ahora bien, estas reflexiones sólo muestran lo que hemos sabido todo el tiempo, esto es, que el principio de eficiencia no puede servir por sí solo como concepción de la justicia.[10] Por tanto, deberá ser complementado de algún modo. En el sistema de la libertad natural el principio de eficiencia se ve restringido por ciertas instituciones subyacentes; cuando estas restricciones son satisfechas, cualquier distribución eficaz que resulte es aceptada como justa.

moral order arises in some way from human nature itself and from the requirements of our living together in society.

A well-ordered society as one de­signed to advance the good of its members and effectively regulated by a public conception of justice. Thus it is a society in which everyone ac­cepts and knows that the others accept the same principles of justice, and the basic social institutions satisfy and are known to satisfy these princi­ples.

The real cause of hunger is a scarcity of justice, not a scarcity of food. Enough grain is squandered every day in raising American livestock for meat to provide every human being on earth with two loaves of bread.

Individual liberty is the whole purpose of political life, and I thought it was threatened then [in 1964 becoming politically engaged at age 15] and I think it's threatened now.

The Light of Liberty is all-consuming because it is the natural way of the soul. It is the highest form of Love."

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.