Explore Quotes on Justice

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].

It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof the pig is obscene.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.