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Justice Quotes
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
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"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak."
40
"In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls."
35
"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."
32
"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice."
32
"When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy."
31
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
25
"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."
17
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
16
"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."
15
"I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."
15
"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."
14
"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."
13
"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."
12
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
12
"I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated."
11
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
10
"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."
10
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
10
"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
9
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment."
9
"Justice is incidental to law and order."
8
"The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."
8
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
8
"Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?"
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