Quotes about Justice

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

Individuals cannot be free if there are impediments to reaching their full potential as human beings.

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.

your uncle Howard is one of the most harmless of men—much nicer than most professional people. Of course he does dreadful things as a judge; but then if you take a man and pay him 5,000 pounds a year to be wicked, and praise him for it, and have policemen and courts and laws and juries to drive him into it so that he can't help doing it, what can you expect?

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.

People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.

Indeed we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.