It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. —Jon Stewart More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. —Henri J.M. Nouwen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no true justice unless mercy is part of it. —The Zohar More about this quote Tags: justice mercy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The czarina Maria Fëdorovna was known throughout Russia for her philanthropy. She once saved a prisoner from transportation to Siberia by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by Alexander. The czar had written: "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia." After Maria's intervention, the note read: "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia." The prisoner was subsequently released. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible. —Abraham Joshua Heschel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I see the "Ten Most Wanted" lists . . . I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now. —Eddie Cantor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: law crime corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray. —Shannon L. Alder More about this quote Tags: others bad pleasure good noticing fault Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice. —Millicent Fenwick More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[Lawyer to potential client:] You have a pretty good case, Mr. Pitkin. How much justice can you afford? —From a New Yorker cartoon by J.B. Handelsman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: prison crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice? —Diane Glancy More about this quote Tags: justice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. —David Mamet More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. —Keith Richards More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email