Plutarch Quotes

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

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.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

More law, less justice.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

Justice is a fading light.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

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

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

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

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

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

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

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

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.