Justice Quotes

"Those who make laws should be bound by the same laws they impose on others."

"The certainty of punishment at sunrise is more terrifying than the uncertainty of punishment at midnight."

"To punish a man for a crime he may not have committed is to commit a greater crime still."

"A society that punishes poverty is a society that ensures perpetual poverty and crime."

"The judge who is corrupted by fear or favor is a poison in the body politic."

"The written law, accessible to all, is infinitely superior to the arbitrary will of magistrates."

"A punishment that is disproportionate to the crime is itself a crime against justice."

"The innocent man imprisoned is twice a victim: first of the crime he did not commit, then of the system that condemned him."

"A nation that practices torture practices the death of its own soul."

"A secret trial is not a trial at all; it is merely an execution dressed in judicial robes."

"A government that executes its own citizens without fair trial is at war with itself."

"The purpose of the criminal justice system should be reform and prevention, not retribution and revenge."

"A just society measures its progress not by the number of its prisons, but by the reduction of its crimes."

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

"All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil."

"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."

"Delay in justice is injustice."

"The principle of utility demands that all privileges be justified by the general happiness."

"Coercion is justified only when it increases the aggregate happiness."

"Legislation must conform to the principle of utility in all respects."

"Publicity is the soul of justice."

"Justice delayed is justice denied forever."

"The fundamental problem of capitalism is the inequality of wealth."

"The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes."

"I do not believe that the existing order of society is just."

"A system that does not recognize private property will never work efficiently"

"Justice requires respecting property rights as much as personal rights"

"Regulations often protect competitors rather than competition itself"

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

"Justice is not about punishment but about restoration and understanding."