Quotes About Justice

truth is subjective, even in a court of law. Knowing and believing are remarkably similar — if not, in fact, the same.

That's why activists go in and try to slow down the logging. They want some trees to be left standing by the time the regulatory agencies show up or the courts give a ruling.

Su silencio le había salvado a él, pero había condenado a otros.

Yo sólo digo que no es incompatible la fe con la democracia y la libertad, y con el respeto a las creencias de los demás. Hay una frase de Martin Luther King que siempre me ha conmovido, dice así: «Hemos sido capaces de volar como los pájaros, de nadar

Respeto a los hombres no por las batallas que hayan podido ganar sino por las causas que defienden

Siempre he pensado que si hay algo que el Todopoderoso no perdonará a los hombres es que maten en su nombre. No se puede imponer la fe con la fuerza de la sangre derramada. A la fe se ha de llegar a través de la razón.

Algún día, Samuel, a nadie le preguntarán en qué cree o a quién reza, y todos los hombres seremos iguales.

Y a ti qué te importa? -A mí me importa todo lo que tenga que ver con acabar con los nazis.

La culpa no es de quien dispara la bala o coloca el explosivo, la culpa es de quien ha provocado la maldita guerra, de quien no va al frente pero envía los hombres a morir.

He wanted to laugh at the poetic justice of it all. After a couple of years of chasing after women and then a decade of having them chase after him, he'd finally been brought down by a slip of a girl, fresh out of Cornwall, whom he was honor-bound to protect.

if it wasn't good for the goose, the gander could damn well do without too.

I beat no one who did not deserve it

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.

An indictment is not a conviction.

Whether the Constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

I just don't like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them.

Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity.

I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.