Quotes About Justice

A trial relied heavily on oaths, but both sides would bring as many liars as they could muster, and judgment usually went to the better liars or, if both sides were equally convincing, to the side who had the sympathy of the onlookers.

Many men do not beat their wives, even though the law allows it and the church encourages it, but a man gains no reputation by beating a weaker person. Æthelred had beaten Æthelflaed, but he was a weak man, and it takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman.

A vida é uma brincadeira dos deuses e não existe justiça. Você precisa aprender a rir ou então vai simplesmente chorar até morrer.

Am I to deny Mark justice because he is old and gross and ugly? Do youth and beauty deserve perverted justice? What have I fought for all these years, if not to make certain that justice is even-handed?

Se gli uomini possono comprare la legge, diceva sempre Artù, allora la legge diventa inutile.

Men are cruel,' I said, 'and the gods made us like themselves

This time, if God wills it, we shall replace him. A man bitten by a snake once does not let the snake live a second time.

Derfel, Derfel – sospirò Merlino. – Sei proprio uguale ad Artù. Pensi che il mondo sia semplice, che il bene sia bene e il male sia male, che l'alto sia alto e il basso sia basso.

It is a book of truths, that money and power are not the right ambitions of a virtuous man, but that justice, charity, and humility will bring you contentment.

The law says I own that land, and the law, we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch.

Mas o destino, como Merlin sempre nos ensinava, é inexorável. A vida é uma brincadeira dos Deuses, costumava dizer Merlin, e não existe justiça. Você precisa aprender a rir, disse-me ele uma vez, ou então vai simplesmente chorar até morrer.

The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch

So much is expected of a king. He must be brave i battle, wise i council, just in judgement.

Poor as an honest lawyer.

Man's inclination to justice makes democracy possible; but man's capacity for injustice makes it necessary.' The optimism we need to prevent ourselves from destroying our own democratic freedoms and, indeed, our own human habitat must be based on reasoned pessimism.

So sleep now, without fear for your life, and if you should ever manage to get out of prison, keep in mind that the purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Keep in mind, Yakov Shepsovitch, that if your life is without value, so is mine. If the law does not protect you, it will not, in the end, protect me. Therefore I dare not fail you, and that is what causes me anxiety—that I must not fail you.

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both

Or was it a question of how the laws were actually interpreted and enforced at the time they committed their crimes, and that they were not applied to them? What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

Da qualche anno la lascio stare, la nostra storia. Ho fatto pace con lei. Ed ecco che è ritornata, particolare su particolare e in maniera così rotonda, conchiusa e regolata, che ora non mi rende più triste. Che razza di storia triste! ho pensato per tanto tempo. Non è che adesso pensi che sia felice. Ma penso che sia giusta.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.