Commit Quote by Anonymous

I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact…

— Henry David Thoreau

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

— Emile M. Cioran

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

— Tacitus

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original…

— Edmund Burke

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

— Albert Pike

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

— Junius

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

— Edmund Burke

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

— Jeff Bingaman

No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.

— Ulpian

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

— Ambrose Bierce

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr