Quotes About Justice

Efficiency will become more important than the dictates of power in the organization of social institutions. This means that provinces and even cities that can effectively uphold property rights and provide for the administration of justice, while consuming few resources, will be viable sovereignties in the Information Age, as they generally have not been during the last five centuries.

The control of violence is the most important dilemma every society faces.

It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.

I didn't do anyting wrong. All I know is I saw two people struggling to get inside these walls and they [Minho and Alby] couldn't make it. To ignore that because of some stupid rule seemed selfish, cowardly, and... well, stupid. If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone's [Alby] life, then go ahead. Next time I promise I'll point at them and laugh, then go eat some of Frypan's dinner. -Thomas

If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone's life, then go ahead. Next time I promise I'll point at them and laugh.

You quit treating people like animals and maybe I'll consider it.

All of it had seemed right. Doing these things for the greater good.

the legal and political debate surrounding the just management of plurality will continue well into the future.

You have no right to be silenced.

David, por ejemplo, fue un tipo y un vocero de Cristo, y los Salmos imprecatorios dan expresión a la justicia infinita del Hombre–Dios, de Su indignación contra la maldad, de Su compasión por las víctimas del mal. Revelan los sentimientos de Su corazón y los pensamientos de Su mente respecto al pecado. J.H. Webster

Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

We have already found a high degree of personal liberty, and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.

We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

I am the son of a murdered woman—anybody who'd call my books misogynistic is, frankly, out of their fucking mind.

Freeedom is not something you beg your enemies for, freedom is what you get when we stand up like Men and fight for Freedom, Justice and Equality

Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

You don't ask of Justice; it asks of you." -Danny Rollings

The first lesson that tragedy teaches (and that morality plays miss) is that all violence is an attempt to achieve justice, or what the violent person perceives as justice, for himself or for whomever it is on whose behalf he is being violent [...] Thus, the attempt to achieve and maintain justice, or to undo or prevent injustice, is the one and only universal cause of violence.

What is the mistake the criminal justice system is making? The major mistake, I believe, is the failure to differentiate between restraint and punishment; and to imagine that punishment will prevent, or deter, violence.

The criminal justice and penal systems have been operating on the basis of a huge mistake, namely, the belief that punishment will deter, prevent, or inhibit violence, when in fact it is the most powerful stimulus of violence that we have yet discovered.