3,189 Quotes About Justice

People love to say, nobody is above the law, which is one of the most dangerous delusions of the social psyche. It is a lie fed to the meek citizens of a nation to keep them obedient to the state, even in the face of corruption. Every human is above the law, until the law that governs the society is made incorruptible (or at least close to incorruptible).

Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.

If justice really existed, there would be no need for law.

the law is neither deaf nor blind

A court case is usually a competition to prove the innocence of the innocent … or the guilty.

The law is a cudgel when necessary and a balm where appropriate.

He'd tried following the law but the law just followed him until he felt like he was being hunted.

A late justice is a lame justice.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. What are the consequences of such a perversion? ... In the first place, it erases from everyone's conscience the distinction between justice and injustice...When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.