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.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

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.

The movie business is a big gamble.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

More law, less justice.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

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

I love being in a courtroom.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.