Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes

Quote by Samuel Butler

Topics: Justice Quotes

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my...

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting...

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to...

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to...

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life...

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life...

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the...

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the...

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there...

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there...

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more...

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more...

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and...

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees...

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our...

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our...