“When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.”
Others on Justice
Martin Luther King
4 quotes“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.”
Simone Weil
3 quotes“One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.”
Saint Augustine
3 quotes“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”
Ben Franklin
2 quotes“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
Alice Walker
2 quotes“All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
Michel Foucault
2 quotes“But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all t...”
Terry Goodkind
2 quotes“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”
Gregory David Roberts
2 quotes“Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them”
Thomas Jefferson
2 quotes“It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice”
Thomas More
2 quotes“One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a...”
Spinoza
2 quotes“Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in...”
Henry David Thoreau
2 quotes“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the ag...”