“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Others on Justice
Martin Luther King
4 quotes“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.”
Saint Augustine
3 quotes“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”
Simone Weil
3 quotes“One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.”
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.”
Alice Walker
2 quotes“All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
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...”
Ben Franklin
2 quotes“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”