Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [581-600] of 715 Justice quotesJustice QuotesJustice Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes No, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals With fearless heart to Heaven, And thence brings down his everlasting rights, Which there abide, inalienably his, And indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, Wherein man confronts his fellow man; And if all other means shall fail his need, One last resort remains—his own good sword. The dearest of our goods we may defend From violence. We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children!~ Friedrich Schiller The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.~ Bruce Schneier The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.~ Edwin M. Schur If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.~ Carl Schurz True Liberty and Justice may require resistance to law .~ Second Monument to Shays' Rebellion If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.~ John Selden Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca A good judge condemns wrongful acts, but does not hate them.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.~ George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.~ George Bernard Shaw It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.~ George Bernard Shaw Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.~ George Bernard Shaw Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair’s breadth upon the liberties of England.~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of justice and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.~ Algernon Sidney In a free society, standards of public morality can be measured only by whether physical coercion -- violence against persons or property -- occurs. There is no right not to be offended by words, actions or symbols.~ Richard E. Sincere, Jr. Whether or not legislation is truly moral is often a question of who has the power to define morality.~ Jerome H. Skolnick Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men.~ Adam Smith Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.~ Adam Smith Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print