After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

The movie business is a big gamble.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

By that sin fell the angels.

Justice is truth in action.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.