Terence Quotes

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Injustice can never be stood for.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Where there are the most laws, there is the most injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

I can't always say that justice is always done in 'Game of Thrones.' It is not.

Fiddler is keenly aware that justice and law don't necessarily equate.

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

The more laws, the less justice.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

The law is cruel.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.