Natural Justice Quotes

• Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

  Epicuro

  Men, Protect, Expediency

  Epicuro (1964). "Cartas: Principios, doctrinas y dichos vaticanos traducidos, con introd. y notas, por Russel M. Geor. Indianápolis Merrill"

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• La ley universal y absoluta es esa justicia natural que no puede escribirse, pero que apela al corazón de todos.

  Victor Primo

  Heart, Law, Appeals

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• Las leyes escritas son fórmulas en las que nos esforzamos por expresar lo más concisamente posible lo que, en tales o cuales circunstancias determinadas, exige la justicia natural.

  Victor Primo

  Law, Demand, Determined

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• Si nos dicen que un hombre es religioso, seguimos preguntándonos cuál es su moral. Pero si oímos al principio que tiene una moral honesta, y que es un hombre de justicia natural y buen temperamento, rara vez pensamos en la otra pregunta, si es religioso y devoto.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, VII conde de Shaftesbury

  Religioso, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Rights, Two

  Lysander Spooner (1847). “The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second”, p.8

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• The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

  Judy Grahn

  Leadership, Teacher, Women

  Judy Grahn (1984). “Another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

  Elihu Root

  Law, May, Facts

  Elihu Root (1916). "Discursos sobre temas internacionales"

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• In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?

  Thomas Harris

  Night, Light, Noses

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.301, Penguin

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• Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Lying, Law

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