Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law"

John Shadegg, Politician

"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"Where the law ends, tyranny begins"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene"

Jeff Cooper, Celebrity

"The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise"

John Shadegg, Politician

"Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby"

Michael Steele, Politician

"Of course we need action, but it should be just action"

Clare Short, Politician

"Misery is the company of lawsuits"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston, where he can serve his jail sentence"

Howard Dean, Politician

"In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment"

John Wilkes Booth, Criminal

"Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified"

Ted Danson, Actor

"They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail"

John Buford, Soldier

"So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go"

Dolores Ibarruri, Politician

"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest"

Joseph A. Schumpeter, Economist

"The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence, and to know how to deal with it"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed"

Byron White, Judge

"My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance, and that puts them at an advantage over the poor"

Samuel Dash, Lawyer

"That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

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