Henry David Thoreau Quotes

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

More law, less justice.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

Justice in this country is an insurance policy. It’s not something that we’re supposed to get sometimes.

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

Does being practical mean we prop up a legal system that's unfair, that bears its weight down on black men and black women, and by extension if you are Hispanic or indigenous or poor? Does being practical mean you don't say to the American people you deserve better than you're getting? That's not the practical we want.

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

Law never made men a whit more just.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

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

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?