I was arrested three times and tortured once.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

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

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

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.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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.

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

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

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, 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.

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.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

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.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.