549 quotes found
“Fiat justitia, ruat caelum. (Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall.)”
“Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the h...”
“As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, and no political institution designed to secure the good can remain the b...”
“I wanted to be JUSTICE, LOVE, and the WRATH OF GOD all in one.”
“justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh a...”
“Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice.”
“I'm appalled with description of "Sex Criminal" as recreation. Just responded to "20 minutes of action" by father of Stanford rapist. Lots of women at Goodreads, what are you thinking?”
“Never let the law interfere with justice.”
“Let there be no love poems writtenUntil love can exist freely andCleanly.”
“If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.”
“As a society, we adhere to the belief in a fair trial for a person accused of a serious crime, but some of us struggle when it comes to the business of providing a competent lawyer to guarantee sai...”
“Justice is like a great home cooked meal; it may not come at the ideal time, but when it does it is served and delicious.”
“Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit the...”
“Law and justice are not the same.”
“The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our e...”
“If changing judges changes law, then it is not clear what law is.”
“A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!”
“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”
“Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.”
“Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them”
