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Quotes About Justice

The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
This hath not offended the king.
~ Sir Thomas More
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
~ Sir Thomas More
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
~ Sir William Blackstone
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
~ Sir William Blackstone
The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness.
~ Sir William Blackstone
The Law is the true embodimentOf everything that's excellent.It has no kind of fault or flaw,And I, my Lords, embody the Law.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
My object all sublimeI shall achieve in time—To let the punishment fit the crime.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,I've got a little list—I've got a little list.Of society offenders who might well be underground,And who never would be missed—who never would be missed.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
I seized him by his little pig-tail,And on his knees fell he,As he squirmed and struggled,And gurgled and guggled,I drew my snickersnee!
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
When constabulary duty's to be done,The policeman's lot is not a happy one.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.
~ Sir William Temple
Drowning, she clung fiercely to that small, splintered piece of mast bobbing in the ocean we call justice. There is no justice, of course, or very little of it, and counting on it as a life raft is a big mistake.
~ Siri Hustvedt
How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.
~ David Cameron
I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
~ Jack Canfield
We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.
~ Agnivesh
I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.
~ Ani DiFranco
For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.
~ Harold Percival
Love does not imply pacifism.
~ Derrick Jensen
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
~ Eldridge Cleaver