Suppose after all that death does end all. Next to eternal joy, next to being forever with those we love and those who have loved us, next to that, is to be wrapt in the...

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle—Gods.

You’d like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn’t you, Comrade Sergeant?’ said Reg encouragingly.’I’d like a hard-boiled egg,’ said Vimes, shaking the match out.There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended.’In the circumstances, Sergeant, I...

He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and...

The defiance of the good atheist hurled at an apparently ruthless and idiotic cosmos is really an unconscious homage to something in or behind that cosmos which he recognizes as infinitely valuable and authoritative: for...

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

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

Unfortunately, the ten-cent-store Jesus being preached now by many men is not the Jesus that will come to judge the world. This plastic, painted Christ who has no spine and no justice, but is a...

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial...

The land of the free full of freedom is the home of the brave.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial....

If there’s hell below, we’re all gonna go.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after...

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

Le citoyen doit-il un seul instant, dans quelque mesure que ce soit, abandonner sa conscience au législateur ?(LA DÉSOBÉISSANCE CIVILE)

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men...

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle...

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

we rescue our tears from the seasecure them by writ

Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child,” Papa continued. “Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway...

It all suddenly seemed like a hopeless fight, but so what? I told myself. What does it cost you to pretend that the can change (for the better)? That history is an arc and it...

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts of supposed heroes and villains, each new hero making one increasingly nostalgic for...

y lo que ha dicho el fiscal es que un hombre no debe morir por tan poca cosa

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this...

Surely, at some point, it may prove desirable that they be brought to prosecution, to face justice. But that is something that I think will have to be decided in the future.

We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion.

If I think he’s going to be a Justice Scalia, who I like personally very much, I vote no. If I think he’s going to be a Kennedy, I vote yes. If I think he’s...

If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,’ Aristotle writes, their association can’t really be considered a polis, or political...

Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey’s silence. It had been his ambition to learn “exactly what happened in that house that night.” Twice now he’d been told, and the two versions...

I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of life, liberty and the soul itself, I must and shall cross the line of battle...

An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. – Kirkus Review

Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged – temporarily – but your heart and soul, the...

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with...

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

We’ll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I’ll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis,...

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don’t. One thing that’s consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

What is kinder–to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance–or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just — not the balancing of benefits.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the right of the United States to self-defense and further called upon all member...

People who don’t expect justice don’t have to suffer disappointment.

Some words were made up without any thought given. Nice is one of them. Nice has no meaning. Nice gets thrown out there to replace something meaningful. Take Goodreads and turn it into Nicereads. This...

God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up.