Epictetus Quotes

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

In 'Maatr,' we do not justify taking the law into our hands. That's not the right thing to do. We are not promoting that.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

As to the long time spent on lawsuits, that is due to concern for justice, that judges may not fail in passing correct judgments, by having to give sentence offhand; it is better that they should reflect, and conclude the case more tardily, than that by judging in a hurry they should both injure man and transgress against the Deity, the institutor of justice....

The law itself is on trial in every case as well as the cause before it.

What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?

That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.