Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Actually, lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

Charles de Montesquieu

"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"How many condemnations I have witnessed, more criminal than the crime!"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"When my journal appears, many statues must come down"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"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"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against"

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

"Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

John Stuart Mill

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

Dan Quayle

"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity"

Lord Acton, Historian

Lord Acton

"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend"

Harry S. Truman, President

Harry S. Truman

"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"Disunion by force is treason"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon"

George Washington, President

George Washington

"Fidelity is the sister of justice"

Horace, Poet

"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

"Poverty resembles penalty for a criminal activity you didn't dedicate"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

Eli Khamarov

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary"

James Madison, President

James Madison

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