Quotes About Justice

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

Il principale fondamento della moralità dell'individuo e di un popolo e la stima costante e profonda che esso ha di sé e la cura che ha a conservarsela, la sensibilità sul proprio onore. Un uomo senza amor proprio non può essere giusto, onesto e virtuoso.

Doing the right thing is actually the right thing to do.

Do right things and the time will also be right.

Do what's right while the sun still shines.

For the world to be a better place for all. Country leaders need to focus on building a platform for the poor to escape poverty.

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason… The law, which is perfection of reason.

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

But of what avail was the innocence of the accused in days when an indictment was equal to a conviction!

Ah! how true it was that conscience was a thousand swords.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.