“A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.”
“There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men”
“Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.”
“May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.”
“We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.”
“Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.”
“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.”
“How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.”
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
“Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.”
“You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.”
“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.”
“Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.”
“I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.”