Justice and Equality

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale.

What I say is that ‘just’ or ‘right’ means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!

Just are the ways of God,

… Yet I shall temper so

Die he or justice must.

But that two-handed engine at the door

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

Justice denied in Massachusetts.

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

I shot the sheriff