The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, read more

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.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not read more

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.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, read more

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced read more

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.

Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought,
therefore, for her own sake.
[Lat., Justitia read more

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought,
therefore, for her own sake.
[Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit praemii, nihil pretii: per se
igitur expetitur.]