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Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!
Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!
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.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull read more
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary
ideas of criminal justice to this read more
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary
ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not
know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole
people.
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may read more
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to
submit to the laws when they see read more
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to
submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.
[Lat., Observantior aequi
Fit populus, nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum
Auctorem parere sibi.]
