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"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"There is one and only one thing in modern society more hideous than crime, namely repressive justice"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice"
Meister Eckhart, Philosopher
"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"The rule of law is the foundation of a just and fair society, and we must work to uphold it at all times"
Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President
"Corruption is a cancer that eats away at the fabric of society, and we must do everything we can to root it out"
Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President
"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business"
Clarence Darrow, Lawyer
"Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for"
Clarence Darrow, Lawyer
"[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society"
William Blackstone, Judge
"So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community"
William Blackstone, Judge
"People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights"
Indira Gandhi, Statesman
"Extreme law is often extreme injustice"
Terence, Playwright
"Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
"Law and justice are not always the same"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed"
Epicurus, Philosopher
"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office"
Aesop, Author
"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist
"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive"
Earl Warren, Judge
"The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion"
William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist
"The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places"
Bryant H. McGill, Author
"A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power"
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician
"A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"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"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power"
Arundhati Roy, Novelist
"The law always limits every power it gives"
David Hume, Philosopher
"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this"
George Mason, Statesman
"I retired from public business from a thorough conviction that it was not in my power to do any good, and very much disgusted with measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common policy and justice"
George Mason, Statesman
"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember"
John Le Carre, Author
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation"
Jane Addams, Activist
"I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic"
Billy Sunday, Clergyman
"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
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