Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

The highest law is often the greatest wrong..

In the law, you have people whose lives have changed because some dirtbag decided to do something to them. We should call it the criminal injustice system. The victim didn't choose to be a victim.

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

Many reasonable prosecutors have come to the conclusion that they would have brought such a case that Hillary Clinton was extremely careless in the handling of national security information. I would have brought such a case and I would have won such a case. And I've prosecuted cases like that in my years in the Justice Department.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue.

The house was on fire," i greeted them tersely. "In case you're interested." they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house was still standing. Fang sniffed, smelling the smoke. It's out, right?" he said

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.’ He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. ‘I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here.

Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with worldly policy and order, clothes itself with the name of justice and becomes like a seed of discord in the soul.