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.

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

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

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

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

More law, less justice.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

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.

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.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

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.

Justice is truth in action.

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.

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.

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.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

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

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

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

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.

Racism is real in this country.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

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

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

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

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

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.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.