Affair Quote by Albert Einstein

“Justice is the reason we have law, and law is man’s feeble attempt to teach decency to others.”

— Joy Ratcliff Cagle

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach…

— Robert H. Jackson

“Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers…

— John Stuart Mill

Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations between states.…

— Wesley Clark

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as…

— Abraham Lincoln

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

— Rajneesh

“All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. "But we live in a world of laws," I said to…

— J.M. Coetzee

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the laws are…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“...The duty of the individual is to accept No rule, t be the intitiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our…

— Óscar Arias

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people,…

— Howard Zinn