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The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.
— Claudius Claudianus
I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there.
— Ron Paul
If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.
— R.C. Sproul
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
— Frederic Bastiat
Law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
— Lucy Stone
In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
— Jimmy Carter
Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?
— Edward Kennedy
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
— Gloria Steinem
He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.
— B. Margoliouth
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.
— Rachel Dolezal
The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.
— Len Wein
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.
— Bayley
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
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
— Henry David Thoreau
Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice ... and justice is the spirit of God.
— J.C. Marino
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
— Aristotle.
Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.
— Charley Reese
Justice is the reason we have law, and law is man's feeble attempt to teach decency to others.
— Joy Ratcliff Cagle
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.
— Bikram Choudhury
Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
— Charles De Montesquieu
What is the meaning of justice when law is used to legalize thievery and murder?
— Anne-Marie O'Connor
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle
— Greg Iles
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
— Frank Herbert
I've come to recognize that questions of law and justice are at the same time questions of power.
— William T. Vollmann
The Empire pretends it's about law and order, but at the end of the day, it's about dressing up oppression in the costume of justice. The
— Chuck Wendig
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.
— George Washington
In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.
— Norris Henderson
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
— Henry David Thoreau
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
— Laozi
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
— John Marshall
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
— John Marshall
Law and justice are not the same.
— John Connolly
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.
— Harold Pinter
I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone. — Edwin Muir
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone. — Edwin Muir
For men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.
— Victor Hugo
The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.
— Victor Cousin
An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.
— Natalya Vorobyova
Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice and vengeance get all tangled together when the law is written by a tyrant and ultimately overturned by the forces of anger and resentment.
— Robert J. Crane
There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].
— Ze'ev Jabotinsky
The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites
— Agona Apell
The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
— Christopher Darden
When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now
— Arthur Miller
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
— Clement Of Alexandria
The horror with which blind and unjust law regards an action never attaches to the doer in the eyes of those who love him.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.
— Morgan Freeman
The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.
— Rohinton Mistry
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.
— Subhas Chandra Bose
When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune ... has already brought him acquittal!
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
— Montesquieu