Justice Quote by Terry Nardin

“In reality there are two, and only two, foundations of law; and they are both of them conditions without which nothing can give it…

— Edmund Burke

“It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends,…

— Isocrates

“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.”

— George Hammond

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are…

— Anatole France

When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify,…

— Jimmy Carter

“Although a legal system is rooted in the values of its society, it also has an independent dynamic, with principles, language, and rules of…

— Joel P. Trachtman

“We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected…

— John Rawls

“Natural law is superior as it allows for the pursuit of virtue genuinely initiated from within and themselves.”

— Patrick Mendis

“when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the…

— Jon Meacham

“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make…

— Bastiat, Frederick

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

— Robert Bork