Kind But Not Just

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. - Samuel Johnson 


It is all too common for the two to be confused.

Extreme Liberty

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. - Barry Goldwater


In the past this is how people approached the world but it has reversed of late.

No There Shouldn't

Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find the greatest injustice. - Arcesilaus

Remember that when you are tempted to say "There ought to be a law."

Behavior

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves. - Thomas Szasz


If you don't speed you won't get a speeding ticket.

Second Amendment Sense

A constitutional guarantee subject to future Judges assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all. - Justice Anthony Scalia (June 26, 2008)

  
It's about time someone said this.

Murder is Not Painless

Being murdered is not painless, so why all the hand-wringing about trying to make the execution of murderers painless? - Thomas Sowell



Do you think when the Bible says an eye for an eye they were thinking about one with a stick and the other with anesthetic?

Touchiness

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. - EB White

This must be why ridicule is often more persuasive than reason, if you've got the stomach for it.

Failed Justice

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln

Failure in a just cause is far superior to success in an unjust one because injustice can rarely be undone but failure does not prevent you from trying again.

Individual Rights

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). - Ayn Rand

The founders of this country knew this - the majority could be wrong. The Constitution (as it was written) limited the majority but the amendments and interpretations soon morphed it into what it is today.

Morality

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. - Victor Hugo



Wouldn't be nice if there were some other affliction which enforced morality in general? It used to be this was handled by the community. If you were immoral you were ostracized at best, hung by the neck at worst. This approach tended to keep folks in line. Today, with political correctness as it is, one is ostracized for stating a view ("What makes you think you are right?").