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Justice Quotes
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
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"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
128
"In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls."
118
"The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression."
95
"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak."
95
"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other."
83
"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice."
81
"When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy."
78
"We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges."
73
"Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals."
67
"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."
58
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
55
"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow."
55
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
54
"I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."
54
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
52
"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."
50
"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case."
50
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
49
"We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all."
47
"Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
47
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
46
"Justice is incidental to law and order."
46
"POLONIUS : My Lord, I will use them according to their desert.HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."
45
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
45
"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."
45
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
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