I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

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

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

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

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.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

I 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.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Due process should matter.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

Foolish 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.

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.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

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

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

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

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

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.

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

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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.

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.

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

A right delayed is a right denied.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Racism is real in this country.