N. T. Wright Quotes

Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

What is going to rule our great commonwealth, the mob or the law?

Order is said to exist where the people of the country have, as a general rule, ceased to prosecute their quarrels by private force, and acquired the habit of referring the decision of their disputes and the redress of their injuries to the public authorities.

Everybody created his own justice and administered it for himself…. It was justice administered directly by the people in the complete absence of regular judicial bodies.

Justice is incidental to law and order

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice which has been severely questioned.

No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

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.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The law is above the law, you know.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.