#justice

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes. ↗

— Jacques-Louis David

#correct #experience #fortune #glory #hard

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#administered #approval #case #court #done

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#beholden #congress #corporate #corporate interests #damaged

And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#freedom

It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today. ↗

— Tom Fitton

#court #i #i think #insular #justice

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#buy #court #crowded #fire #former

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#earnest #excuse #harsh #heard #i

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#criminal #criminal justice #criminal justice system #defender #experimentation

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. ↗

— William Penn

#justice #lives #obedience #our #our lives

What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#doing #equals #experience #freedom #iraqi