Blind Justice Quotes

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.

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

Our criminal justice system was designed to be fair and is the fairest system known to man.

At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

Get out of the way of Justice. She is blind.

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Justice should be one of the things that's colorblind.

We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

When justice is done for symbolic reasons, then all of us are in trouble…. Symbolic justice is not what a verdict should be about.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

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

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

We cannot create the perception that if you're rich or famous or both that you got one set of justice - and for everybody else it's something much harsher. That won't do and we need to make sure that we have a criminal justice system that has integrity.

Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.