Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

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

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

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.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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

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

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

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

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

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.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

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

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

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.

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.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

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.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

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.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

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.

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.

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

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.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

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

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.