Quotes About Justice

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me.

It is high time SoCalGas is held responsible for its actions.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

I'm in the highest bracket. There's no way that a 22-year-old should be hit for that amount of money when he's got his whole life ahead of him.

Police have two rights that even the president does not have, the right to take liberty and to take life. Those are dear to America. And we must ensure that the highest level of scrutiny and standard goes to anyone who is given that right.

I want to use my platform to highlight and shed light on issues that are dear to me.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

I know what sexual harassment looks like. I'm also a lawyer by training and am highly aware that these behaviors should have real consequences.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

when a company (say, General Motors) or a city or state says to its employees that it cannot "afford" to pay pensions, they are engaging in theft and the thieves should be prosecuted

In debates over the death penalty, liberals rank Absolute Goodness over Retribution, and conservatives tend to prefer Retribution: a life for a life. Suppose

Therefore, any social or political system in which people get things they don't earn, or are rewarded for lack of self-discipline or for immoral behavior, is simply an immoral system.

An interesting advantage of restitution is that it does not place you in a moral dilemma with respect to the positive-action and debt-payment principles. You both perform a positive action and you pay your debt. A

Two wrongs do not make a right; but three rights make a left.

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

How kind you are, North Wind!' 'I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.

I should not be surprised, said Mr. Graham, that the day should come when men will refuse to believe in God simply on the ground of the apparent injustice of things. They would argue that there might be either an omnipotent being who did not care, or a good being who could not help, but that there could not be a being both all good and omnipotent or else he would never have suffered things to be as they are.

Christ died to save us, not from suffering, but from ourselves; not from injustice, far less from justice, but from being unjust. He died that we might live—but live as He lives, by dying as He died who died to Himself.

Do you really suppose God cares whether a man comes to good or ill? If He did not, He could not be good himself... ...Then He can't be so hard on us as the parsons say, even in the after-life? He will give absolute justice, which is the only good thing. He will spare nothing to bring His children back to himself, their sole well-being, whether He achieve it here--or there.

as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.

The righteousness that makes a man visit the sins of a father upon his children, is the righteousness of a devil, not the righteousness of God. When God visits the sins of a father on his children, it is to deliver the child from his own sins through yielding to inherited temptation.