Quotes About Justice

Medieval political structure was ideally a contract exchanging service and loyalty in return for protection, justice, and order.

by To Kill a Mockingbird. At the top of the nonfiction list was My Life in Court by Louis Nizer. That week also saw the publication of one of the finest works of history

servile degree." The object of the noble's function, in theory, was not fighting for fighting's sake, but defense of the two other estates and the maintenance of justice and order. He was supposed to protect the people from oppression, to combat tyranny, and to cultivate virtue—that is, the higher qualities of humanity of which the mud-stained ignorant peasant was considered incapable by his contemporaries in Christianity, if not by its founder.

They governed from duty, heritage and habit—and, as they saw it, from right.

princes are instituted by God not to seek their own gain but the common good of the people.

Society's revenge matched its fright.

As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination

Justice cannot be exerted in a vacuum where there is neither good nor evil, right nor wrong.

Interference with personal liberty for opinions is immoral, for every man has a right to his own opinions and a right to express them; and interference with the liberty of A is only lawful when A has violated the rights of B, and then one interference must exactly balance the other. When an idea takes the knife like Lady Macbeth, it has on its hands a dye which all the perfumes of Araby cannot efface. It has defied morality, and, as its penalty, morality delivers it over to impotence.

Of authority there are two sorts, the authority of right, and the authority of force.

No man or corporation has a right to employ any man without giving him the equivalent of his labor.

Your case against me is so very clearly stated I plead no contest, I just turn and shrug I've come to figure all importance overestimated You must mean water when you beg for blood

poor. They argue that greater economic equality is a matter of simple justice that governments should enforce. We certainly agree with the goal of helping the poor share in more of the wealth of a nation, and in several sections of the following chapters we discuss ways this can happen through fair, open, market-based solutions.7 The goal of this entire book is finding truly workable, sustainable ways to overcome poverty. However, some

Some people just need killing.

worship had been divorced from justice, and the fatherless and the widow had become the chief victims

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And… moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.

I have decided that the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.

If the time ever comes when there is no longer poverty in the world, there will be a wonderful freedom for the higher qualities of the human race.