Thomas More Quotes

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.

But I wound like people to think I was an honest judge and a good judge. And I always tried the reach the best result in every case.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Judges shall judge justly, according to the written law and not according to their own judgment.

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

Justice is incidental to law and order

We’re not here to secure convictions; we are here to secure justice.

I think if I had to choose another profession, I'd like to be a judge because I'm very capable of determining what's right and what's not.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

Lawyers are for only what is right.

Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just as Socrates said we should - to hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly, and decide impartially.

Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly.

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

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.