Quotes About Justice

We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.

There is a natural right that says that when the state asks you for a third of what you earned through back-breaking work, this seems to you a reasonable demand and you give in. If the state asks you for more, or much more, then it is a clear abuse against you and then you try to find evasive ways to make you feel coherent to your intimate sense of morality and it doesn't make you feel ethically guilty.

About magistrates he said: "To do that kind of job you must be mentally disturbed. If they do that kind of job is because they are anthropologically different from the other human beings"

America is basically about freedom.

Nigdy nie w?tp w cz?eka prawego i szlachetnego. Taki zawsze co? spieprzy. Oczywi?cie wszystko w imi? wi?kszego dobra.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

This is how all love works. Like Israel's love for God, love does not need deep knowledge of the other to be evoked and sustained-- through, once inspired, it might seek such knowledge. Love is evoked not by beauty or moral goodness (in the sense of kindness) but by the mysterious promise of the loved one to anchor and sustain one's life, such that one can feel at home in the world. Love can never count on requital or justice- and it is perhaps most genuinely love if it doesn't.

Angel: And what will you do with the world, once it is yours?' N. Hob: 'Punish it, for not loving me.

Someone's looking for a short sharp visit from the Slap Fairy," said Melody.

Sometimes you can't save everyone. Sometimes all you can do... is kill a whole bunch of people.

Revenge is simply justice with teeth.

Be angry only for a grave cause that rightly calls for indignation,' Maimonides wrote in his Mishneh Torah. What

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He asked, 'How can you make a revolution without firing-squads?

Fulk the Black, Count of Anjou and founder of the Angevin dynasty that later ruled England, came on pilgrimage after he had burned his wife alive in her wedding-dress having found her guilty of adultery with a swineherd.

Edith Wharton with the death penalty

Commissar for Justice?' Isaak Shteinberg, a Left-SR, challenged Lenin. 'Let's honestly call it the Commissariat of Social Annihilation!' 'Well said!' replied Lenin. 'That's exactly how it's going to be!

twenties, served as his judge in 1937 and even denounced a

An effective tsar could be harsh provided he was consistently harsh. Rulers are often killed not for brutality but for inconsistency.

Redeeming social value, indeed.

This is perhaps the most chilling moment in Mark's account. The crowd is asked a simple question, which it refuses to answer, offering only a call for violence. The moment might stand as a warning about all those times when fear, anger, prejudice, blind obedience or blood-lust blank out reason and justice.

One newcomer, asked why he had killed his wife and children, told the superintendent: "I don't know why I am telling you all of this. It's none of your business As a matter of fact it was none of the judge's business either. It was a purely family affair.

Society was supposed to be better than its criminals, never stooping to their level of depravity.

Retribution