3,189 Quotes About Justice

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

The decrease in the number of killings doesn’t make any difference if the society has to sleep with the ghosts of the old devil.

The ages of individual Supreme Court Justices were of significant concern to Zack, as were the nominations President John would make if these elderly Supreme Court Justices retired or passed away. Zack smiled to himself and wished the justices good health and long life.

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

-And that makes it alright? Didn't God say, "Thou shalt not kill"?-Yes, but after that it got complicated.

All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.

Saying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.