Justice Quote by Walter Scott

“In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defence; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“  Every punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity, says the great Montesquieu, is tyrannical. A proposition which may be made more general thus:…

— Cesare Beccaria

“Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.”

— Walter Wink

“WE SAW HOW INCLUSIVE economic and political institutions emerge. But why do they persist over time? The history of the Black Act and the…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“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

“It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations.…

— Victor Del Arbol

“For these new states this curse bears the germs of a deadly sickness. For the nation-state cannot exist once its principle of equality before…

— Hannah Arendt

“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

The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in…

— John Bright

“First, because, in the first case, the right of conquest being in fact no right at all, it could not serve as a foundation…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau