Quotes About Justice

Il massimo bene è la prudenza. Per questo la prudenza è anche più pregevole della filosofia, e da essa hanno origine anche tutte le altre virtù, perché insegna come non è possibile una vita felice che non sia una vita saggia, bella e giusta, e non è possibile una vita saggia, bella e giusta che non sia felice. Le virtù sono infatti connaturate alla vita felice e la vita felice è da esse inseparabile.

A justiça que surge da natureza é um compromisso de vantagem mútua, para impedir que os homens se ofendam uns aos outros e para evitar que sejam ofendidos.

É impossível para a pessoa que viola em segredo qualquer artigo do pacto social se sentir segura de que ficará impune, mesmo que já tenha escapado dez mil vezes; pois até o fim de sua vida nunca tem certeza de que não será descoberta.

É impossível viver uma vida agradável sem viver sabiamente, bem e justamente, e é impossível viver sabiamente, bem e justamente sem viver agradavelmente.

O homem justo é o mais livre da angústia; o injusto o mais cheio de angústia.

Natural justice is a covenant for mutual benefit, to not harm one another or be harmed.

Every policy that begins on the assumption of keeping someone weak forever is doomed to fail.

If you are indifferent to a wrong, then you are part of it.

That is to say that after I had seen all of that, I then wrote, "If there is any God at all, then Germany should never be allowed to win this war.

While only a handful of the thousands of non-Jews who took our survey had ever been sent to jail, taken into protective custody, or sent to a concentration camp even though the majority had committed illegal acts during the Third Reich, great numbers of the Jewish respondents

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as a superhuman Law, it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

The important thing is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is too ingenuous a way out. It does not explain Dimitrios; it only apologizes for him. Special sorts of conditions must exist for the creation of the special sort of criminal that he typified...all I do know is that while might is right, while chaos and anarchy masquerade as order and enlightenment, those conditions will obtain.

He who kills even one unbeliever of those who rule over us, whether he does it secretly or openly, shall be rewarded by God.

Let It Grow," and it was several years before I realized that I had totally ripped off "Stairway to Heaven," the famous Zeppelin anthem, a cruel justice seeing as how I'd always been such a severe critic of theirs.

Well, they better get used to it. It's payback for what they did to England back in the 1890s.

Black troops helped construct schools, churches, and orphanages, organized debating societies, and held political gatherings where "freedom songs" were sung and soldiers delivered "speeches of the most inflammatory kind.

Nothing in all history," exulted William Lloyd Garrison, equaled "this wonderful, quiet, sudden transformation of four millions of human beings from … the auction-block to the ballot-box.

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. Lincoln

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.