Justice & Rights Sayings

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

Guilt is a tool of the enslaver.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

We are moving toward a world in which the word 'freedom' will become obsolete.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

They think that no man ought to be punished for his religion, nor for any other opinion whatsoever, provided that he does not stir up sedition.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

If the punishment for a 'crime' is a fine. Then it's an activity which is legal for a price.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

The essence of friendship is that it is a relationship of equals, but equality is always a precarious balance.

A crime is a crime because it is punished; it is not punished because it is a crime.

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game.

The communicative power of citizens is the only source of legitimate law.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

To-day is a king in disguise, and we are his courtiers. To-morrow is a queen, and we are her slaves.

The greatest punishment for a man is to know that he has done wrong, but to be unable to atone for it.

I am not a man who has any great respect for the law, when the law is a ass.

I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint Domingue.