Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

He shall rule them with a rod of iron. - Revelation 2:25

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

After my father's death, I watched my mother and Uncle Teddy - my father's last living brother - plead to the judge to allow his alleged killer, Sirhan Sirhan, to escape the death penalty.

reduce a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death, to one less severe: the governor recently commuted the sentences of dozens of women convicted of killing their husbands.

I want you to understand me. This isn't vengeance. This is punishment.

Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.

I don't like to bust drunk drivers. I don't like to listen to their explanations, watch their pitiful attempts to affect sobriety, or see the sheen of fear break out in their eyes when they realize...

This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.

What if a king made bad laws; laws so unnatural that a country broke them by declaring its freedom? He threw his arms in the air. Now you are spouting nonsense. Two slaves running away from their...

There are times when we suffer innocently at other people's hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the...

LeCedrick Earle was maybe an inch shorter than me, with dark glossy skin and a shaved head. He was wearing a prison - issue orange jumpsuit and Keds. I said, That's right. I work for an attorney named...

We could also come to the question of motive, although as any good detective will tell you, you need to find the means first, then the opportunity, all bolstered by evidence, and then you will have...

The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse.

The hands of Hitler were filthy, but those of the United States were not clean. Our government had accepted, was still accepting, the subordination of black people in what we claimed was a democratic...

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

The truth is that torture creates the torturers

Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

Yes, suddenly I saw it like this: most people are fooled through a double erroneous belief: believe in the eternal memory {of people, things, acts, nations} and in the possibility of repair { of acts,...

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs...

Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child," Papa continued. "Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway got you. You are the man...

The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice

Please!' That word didn't make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice. 'You're already dead,' Nico said. 'You're a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won't be sharing any...

Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to...

A crime that goes unpunished perpetuates sin among people, undermines confidence in divine justice, and paves the way for more crimes to be committed.