Justice Quotes

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

Let It Grow," and it was several years before I realized that I had totally ripped off "Stairway to Heaven," the famous Zeppelin anthem, a cruel justice seeing as how I'd always been such a severe critic of theirs.

I think it's the land. The streams, the forests, the vast emptiness. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. But I have a love for humankind, a love of truth, and a love of justice.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

For in the absence of a magistrate (dandadharabhave), the strong will swallow the weak; but under his protection, the weak resist the strong.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

Where there's injustice, I always believed in fighting. The question is, do you fight to change things or to punish? For myself, I've found we're all such sinners, we should leave punishment to God.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Property is the fruit of labor... Labor is superior to capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is [in] his love of justice.

I am not wanting in the purpose, though I may fail in the strength, to maintain my freedom from bad influences. ... May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope, in the world?

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.