3,189 Quotes About Justice

[t]he three fates that haunt the halls of justice of scandalous, frivolous and vexatious.

Maintaining a fair and accessible justice system should at all times be the overarching concern of Government"Honi Soit, 19 May 2014

The law is well alive. If one cuts it, it will bleed. Consequently, my only lingering concern is to determine its apposite transgressor regardless of his status. The slightest failure to aggressively do so would make the law a façade of my commitment to see a society free of any discrimination.” Attorney Jerry Boies.

You can learn perfect justice from nature! When the wind blows, it blows for everyone and for everything: For the birds, for the sailboats, for the wind roses, for the kites...

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

A tyrant's trust dishonors those who earn it.

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.

There will always be cases that cry out to me for ultimate punishment. That is not the true issue. The pivotal question instead is whether a system of justice can be constructed that reaches only the rare, right cases, without also occasionally condemning the innocent or the undeserving.

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.