Decree Quote by Isaiah

“When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the…

— Cesare Beccaria

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong,…

— Thomas Hobbes

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

— Plato

“We live among nations who frequently wage unjust wars; who, disregarding the rights of others, oppress and rob, and even murder their citizens, in…

— Henry Wager Halleck

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the…

— James Otis

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

— Plato

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

“And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit this favor,…

— John Calvin

“Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government.…

— Ron Paul

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

— Baron de Montesquieu

“They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil, but that the evil is greater than the good. And…

— Plato

The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit,…

— John Peter Altgeld