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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. -- Aristotle
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
The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice. -- Ludwig Quidde
I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree! -- Harold H. Greene
Let the force of arms give place to law and justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds. -- Rebecca West
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony. -- Laozi
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. -- Jonathan Sacks
Law and justice are not always the same. -- Gloria Steinem
Justice is merely incidental to law and order. -- J. Edgar Hoover
You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect. -- Bikram Choudhury
The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion. -- Christopher Darden
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. -- Arthur Baer
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. -- Earl Warren
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty. -- Algernon Sidney
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. -- Charles de Secondat
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers. -- Pat Robertson
I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin. -- Apollonius of Tyana
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. -- Ezra Stiles
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. -- Edmund Burke
And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington. -- George J. Mitchell
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well. -- Ernest Istook
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. -- Burke Marshall
I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice. -- Camryn Manheim
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. -- Raymond Chandler
The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse. -- Ellen G. White
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law. -- Harold H. Greene
I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done. -- Jeff Lindsay
More law, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice is incidental to law and order. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Fictions of law must be consistent with justice. -- William Henry Maule
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. -- Abbie Hoffman
There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. -- Dean Koontz
Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law. -- Aristotle
This is a court of law, not a court of justice. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice. -- Lydia M. Child
[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it. -- Lucille Kallen
Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle. -- Max Anders
What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law. -- Imran Khan
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. -- Idries Shah
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool. -- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice. -- Bill James
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. -- William Gaddis
No one is above the law and that I would pursue justice on their behalf. -- Marilyn Mosby
One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law. -- Robert Breault
Our policemen and women are disrespected. We need law and order, but we need justice, too. -- Donald Trump
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience. -- Harold H. Greene
Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order. -- Camille Paglia
Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring. -- Rohinton Mistry
The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice. -- Tim DeChristopher
The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice. -- William McIlvanney
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him. -- E. B. White
Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law. -- Barack Obama
He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. -- George Rivorie
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice. -- Harold Pinter
Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery; -- Solomon Northup
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy". -- Thomas Sowell
I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone. -- Edwin Muir
Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here. -- Tim Kaine
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. -- Baron de Montesquieu
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. -- Baron de Montesquieu
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. -- Lucy Stone
Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
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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
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court. -- Michel Foucault
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
He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. -- B. Margoliouth
Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands. -- Bayley
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 universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all. -- Victor Cousin
Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else. -- John Quincy Adams
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. -- Francis Bacon
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
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice. -- Harry S. Truman
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
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or European justice systems. -- Ayelet Shaked
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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
That's not the federal law. What you're confusing is law with the opinion of a justice, what one lone federal judge says is not law. -- Roy Moore
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
Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law? -- Edward Kennedy
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud. -- Henry Hazlitt
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
The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law. -- Patrick Leahy
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
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. -- Voltaire
The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law! -- Trey Gowdy
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters. -- Luc de Clapiers
As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world. -- Stephen Batchelor
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
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
Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law. -- John Buchan
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. -- Gerry Spence
The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world. -- Walter Cronkite
It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance. -- Benjamin B. Ferencz
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
There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
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
There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law. -- Alexis de Tocqueville

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