Quotes About Justice

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

En particular, ningún tipo de actividad debía prohibirse a menos que, al realizar tal actividad, se esté dañando a otros.

It should never be about what side of the fence you are on, but, rather: what is right; fair; just; and above all, what is humane. If not, we are of no significance. We are nothing — certainly, we have nothing to offer the world of any great importance. By doing so — by doing what is right, fair, just, and humane — we ameliorate ourselves to becoming honorable people, which many of us have yet to attain.

Why is torture the worst interrogation method? Produces unreliable information Negative world opinion Subject to war crimes trials Used as a tool for compliance

I want to be an Avenger.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

in the face of inhumanity, a good man reacts--but a great one acts.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne—Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

Ef you take a sword an' dror it, An' go stick a feller thru, Guv'ment ain't to answer for it, God'll send the bill to you.

They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak.

Only the actions of the justSmell sweet and blossom in their dust.

file. "James Miller. We'll need to determine if he is corrupt, or merely the unwitting tool of others.

So many places it could be,' Ramaas replied. He was moving closer. 'Paris. London. Rome. Berlin. All the rest. I wish God had given me enough weapons to strike them all. But I will be satisfied with what I have. A city full of thieves will be burned to ashes and all who gave them succor will suffer for it.

Jack, however, was persuaded by an aide to telephone King's wife, Coretta, to express his sympathy. At the same time, Bobby (unbeknownst to Jack) telegraphed the judge and requested King's release. The judge relented, and King got out of prison on bail. King then gave Jack full credit for what had happened. King Sr. came around, announcing, "I've got a suitcase full of votes, and I'm going to take them to Mr. Kennedy and dump them in his lap.

El temor por nuestras propias vidas pudo habernos inducido a llevarlo al patíbulo y ponerle la soga al cuello, pero fue necesario un ímpetu más urgente que nos hiciera continuar y darle una patada a la silla.

doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions.

Also they have rattlesnakes, and the death penalty, which I think is primitive and unethical

Elizabeth Blair of brother Frank: he could "not let even a great man set his small dogs on him without kicking the dog & giving his master some share of the resentment.

no man is superior, unless it was by merit, and no man is inferior, unless by his demerit.

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall argued in another context many years later, the "grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

To Lincoln's mind, the fundamental test of a democracy was its capacity to "elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all.

On a hot summer night in July 1836, an organized mob broke into the shop where the abolitionist weekly was printed, dismantled the press, and tore up the edition that was about to be circulated.