Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
PlatoOf all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao TzuI would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.
Alexander Graham BellBe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
Pope FrancisI favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald ReaganOne way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald ReaganThe worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
Herbert HooverTo cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
Albert CamusFear follows crime and is its punishment.
VoltaireI’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.
Angelina JolieUse every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William ShakespeareHell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Aldous HuxleyJustice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin LutherI think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
Lou HoltzIf anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.
John F. KennedyWar settles nothing.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI think God’s justice is making wrongs right.
Joel OsteenFree trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund BurkeA hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.
Robert GreeneDon’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
Jim MattisJustice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
Marcus Tullius CiceroBy that sin fell the angels.
William ShakespeareWe are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Elbert HubbardImagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise PascalSooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.
Noam ChomskyRacism is real in this country.
Kamala HarrisWhen rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Jean-Paul SartreHe is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
VoltaireThe equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
Fidel CastroThe moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David ThoreauIf there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles DickensIt 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.
EpicurusThe highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
PlatoI should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
James MadisonJustice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.
Hunter S. ThompsonThere 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.
Albert CamusAs soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSuccess consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSaints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George OrwellFoolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas CarlyleI bought a gun and chose drugs instead.
Kurt CobainI say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul SartreNothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert FrostThere 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?
Thomas SowellIf the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Noam ChomskyIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonLaws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin FranklinNext to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis BaconMan has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Elon MuskIt is right to give every man his due.
PlatoCause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEverywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
George W. BushHe who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.
ConfuciusAmerica did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy CarterThere will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Huey NewtonIt is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
VoltaireA man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore RooseveltThere are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy