Quotes About Justice

You're learning. So why don't we stop pretending? It's so much easier when you give up all those illusions and realize that the only justice you'll get in this life is the justice you dish out. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, mate. You need to sharpen your teeth. Don't get angry. Get even.

There always will be tension between the need to protect the innocent and the obligation to punish the guilty, but the current American system does a tolerable job of both. The fact is, the overwhelming majority of prison inmates are guilty of serious crimes that pose significant risks to the American public. Any argument for a dramatic downscaling of our sentencing policies will have to address these realities of imprisonment.

when you see your friend—or someone you think and hope might someday be more—abused, you do what you can to stop it. Who doesn't do that? What kind of person doesn't do that?

It so happens that I am in agreement with the objectives of the Supreme Court as stated in the Brown decision.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

you can only know a country when you have seen its prisons.

Back then, as now, narratives shaped outcomes in courtrooms.

No latitude makes any difference to what men will do to other men, whether for gain or in the name of justice.

Wilson had been killed by everybody. It was this that made his death special, the children had been told. It was justice, it was all the people showing how much they hated this crime. Killing was justice when everybody joined in.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

Maybe it was because I'd effectively functioned as an agnostic for a few years already, but it never occurred to me that life without God might have no meaning. On the contrary, among my first thoughts after my deconversion was this: Holy mackerel! Evangelizing people to love, justice, and community is going to be a whole lot easier now that I don't have to convince them to buy a whole set of unbelievable Iron Age myths at the same time!

When Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) found out who had published a nasty pamphlet about her, she had the authors' right hands cut off. Now there's an idea! (Or not.) For the moment, let's say that a Mean Girl is treating you

And now to my socialist friends who are here present: I have said that Jesus wanted what you want, that he wanted to help those who are least, that he wanted to establish the kingdom of God upon this earth, that he wanted to abolish self-seeking property, that he wanted to make persons into comrades. Your concerns are in line with the concerns of Jesus. Real socialism is real Christianity in our time.

It is not right that any one should be advocate and judge in the same case.

por un cristiano que los indios matasen, habían los cristianos de matar cien indios.

Esto parece haber dado a entender la divina escriptura en los proverbios de Salomón: Rex, qui sedet in solio judicii, dissipat omne malum in tuitu suo [El Rey que está sentado en el solio del juicio disipa todo mal con su mirada]. Porque

Our words—our lives—our pains: nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Der Endzweck des Staates ist [...] im Grund die Freiheit.

Tyranny is most violent where individual beliefs, which are an inalienable right, are regarded as criminal.