3,189 Quotes About Justice

Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

So che, rifiutando a mia volta di accettare un compromesso con i fondamentalisti e con i signori della guerra, o di annacquare le mie denunce nei loro confronti, protrò finire con l'essere annoverata anch'io nel lungo elenco degli afghani che sono morti per la libertà del loro paese. Ma non si può venire a patti con la verità. E non ho paure di una morte prematura, se la mia morte favorirà la cause della giustizia.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between “guilty” and “innocent.” Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn’t I be “neither” or “both”? After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, “Your Honor, I plead human.

Men of honor, men of God in a healthy society, stand in defense of justice

Men after the heart of God become the moral conscience, the guidance and custodians of justice, not simply in the security of the four walls of their church