One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.
Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just.
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted.
There is no true justice. There is only relevant Ministry.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but it will never be a reality.
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
An unjust law is itself a species of violence.
For good, return good. For evil, return justice.
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
The difference between outlaws and inlaws is outlaws are wanted.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong, they are conflicts between two rights.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law.
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing.
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty.
