Justice Quotes

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to give everyone their due."

"Justice is the balance of mutual interests."

"Justice serves the common good through mutual respect."

"A just society protects the rights of all its members, not merely the privileged few."

"The measure of a society is how it treats its poorest members."

"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied; it is injustice compounded."

"The purpose of punishment is not to torment a sensible being, nor to undo a crime already committed, but to prevent the criminal from doing further injury to society and to deter others from committing like offences."

"It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them. This is the ultimate aim of every good system of legislation."

"The certainty of punishment, rather than its severity, deters crime."

"A society that uses torture to extract confessions is a society that has abandoned reason and embraced barbarism."

"The judge who interprets the law must be bound by its letter, not permitted to exercise arbitrary judgment."

"An unjust law is not truly a law, but merely the will of the powerful imposed upon the weak."

"Proportionality in punishment is not merely a principle of mercy, but a requirement of reason and justice."

"The cost of imprisoning a man for life often exceeds the cost of his crime; yet we imprison nonetheless."

"The right to a fair trial is not a luxury for the wealthy; it is a necessity for all."

"Laws written in blood and enforced by terror will eventually be washed away by the blood of revolution."

"Excessive punishment corrupts both the punished and those who administer the punishment."

"Public trials, openly conducted, are the best guarantee against judicial corruption and abuse."

"A society that executes the innocent will eventually execute the innocent with impunity."

"Torture is an invention of cruelty and fear, unworthy of an enlightened and rational state."

"The judge who acts as both accuser and executioner is no judge at all, but an instrument of oppression."

"Punishment, like medicine, should be prescribed with care, measured precisely, and administered only when necessary."

"The fear of punishment may restrain one crime, but the love of justice will prevent many."

"Laws that are rarely enforced against the powerful are tyrannical chains on the weak."

"The penalty for a crime should be no more than what is necessary to deter others from committing it."

"A society without justice is merely an aggregation of thieves and murderers."

"A law that is unjust to one group is an unjust law, regardless of how many it benefits."

"The purpose of government is to protect the innocent, not to protect the guilty from punishment."

"Capital punishment, far from deterring crime, often serves only to glorify the criminal in the eyes of the masses."