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| Det kommer inte att finnas någon rättvisa så länge män står med knivar eller pistoler och förgör de som är svagare än de själva är. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| För mycket nåd... ofta resulterande i framtida brott som var dödliga för de oskyldiga offer som inte behövde ha blivit offer om bara rättvisa hade kommit före nåd. | Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| Ingenting är att föredra framför rättvisa. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Inget är att föredra före rättvisan. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Min definition av social rättvisa: de som vägrar arbeta förtjänar att gå hungriga. | Clayton Cramer |
| Rättvisa är att ha och att göra vad som är ens eget. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great. | Abe Fortas |
| Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. | Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950) |
| Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. | Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938) |
| 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 | Bertie C. Forbes |
| Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor | Charles Brockden Brown (1771-) |
| Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| Lawyers as a group are no more dedicated to justice or public service than a private public utility is dedicated to giving light. | David Melinkoff |
| Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian | Dennis Wholey |
| Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. | Edgar Argo |
| Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. | Elias Canetti (1905-1994) |
| Let justice be done, though the world perish | Emperor Ferdinand I (1503-) |
| Justice is the bread of the nation, it is always hungry for it. | François R. Chateaubriand |
| I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice. | Hannah Green |
| The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. | Irving R. Kaufman |
| Justice is incidental to law and order. | J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) |
| Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass | Jane Bryant Quinn (1939-) |
| When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene. | John Paul Stevens (1920-) |
| Charity isn't a good substitute for justice | Jonathan Kozol |
| When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! | Laurie Anderson (1947-) |
| Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. | Lawrence G. Lovasik (1913-) |
| Justice is better when it prevents rather than punishes with severity | Legal Maxim |
| A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit. | Lloyd Paul Stryker |
| Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. | Lord Mansfield |
| A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running. | Lucille Kallen (1922-) |
| In this world it rains on the Just and the Unjust alike, but the Unjust have the Just's umbrellas | Lynne Alpern |
| I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi. | Phil Donahue (1935-) |
| The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille. | Robert H. Jackson |
| I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence | Thomas Erskine |
| Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us | Thomas Otway (1652-1685) |
| A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena. | Tom C. Clark |
| Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply]. | Warren E. Burger (1907-) |
| Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost. | Warren E. Burger (1907-) |
| Justice is like a train that is nearly always late | Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-1992) |
| The price of justice is eternal publicity | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) |
| To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law. | Byron R. White (1917-) |
| There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court. | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. | Daniel DeFoe (1660-1731) |
| Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey | Denis Diderot (1713-1784) |
| Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. | Queen Elizabeth II (1926-) |
| The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. | Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) |
| Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest | George Norman Douglas (1865-1957) |
| Justice and goodwill will outlast passion | James A. Garfield (1831-1881) |
| I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| Every law is an infraction of liberty. | Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) |
| Justice is a terrible but necessary thing | Jessamyn West (1902-1984) |
| Justice is the truth in action. | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| We love justice greatly, and just men but little | Joseph Roux (1834-1905) |
| To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong | Lucan (39-) |
| Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. | Lyn Yutang (1895-1976) |
| It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. | Ralph Nader (1934-) |
| Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there | Walter Cronkite (1916-) |
| It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. | Warren E. Burger (1907-) |
| The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Justice is like a train that is nearly always late | Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-1992) |
| If you want peace, work for justice. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille. | Robert H. Jackson |
| The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. | Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) |
| Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. | Lawrence G. Lovasik (1913-) |
| Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian | Dennis Wholey |
| I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. | Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938) |
| If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) |
| The severest justice may not always be the best policy | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. | Alan M. Dershowitz (1938-) |
| No one has ever suffered from his people as I have. | Ali ibn Abi Talib |
| JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| it's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to -- to prove you're client's guilt. | Anderson Cooper (1967-) |
| Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not the journey's end. The law, like the traveler, must be ready for the morrow. It must have a principle of growth. | Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938) |
| Sir, I say that justice is truth in action | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Justice is truth in action. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers | Bible |
| Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice. | Cindy Sheehan |
| Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| 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. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| The place of justice is a hallowed place | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) |
| Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time. | Friedrich August Hayek |
| Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest | George Norman Douglas (1865-1957) |
| The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| Every law is an infraction of liberty. | Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) |
| The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. | John Powell (1920-) |
| Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship. | Kemal Ataturk |
| Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Sentence first, verdict afterwards. | Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
| Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| [I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists through blind imitation of the past. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Justice is having and doing what is one's own | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| Say: My Lord has enjoined justice, and set upright your faces at every time of prayer and call on Him, being sincere to Him in obedience; as He brought you forth in the beginning, so shall you also return. (The Elevated Places 7.29) | quran |
| Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| Laws do not persuade because they threaten | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge! | Stephen Gillers |
| My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension. | Thomas a Kempis |
| That trial is not fair where affection is judge | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us | Thomas Otway (1652-1685) |
| The greatest justice in life is to be who one is. | Vanna Bonta |
| The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |