Quotes About Justice

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases…. I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

I fought the law, and the law won.

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

I will be angry until my dying day, Mr Catchpool. Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that's something worth raging about.

Hugo Dockerill was the first and only letter-recipient to remain cheerful in the face of his predicament, and certainly the first to demonstrate a belief that all the world's problems could be solved if only decent people sat down at a table together and set things straight. If he objected to being accused of murder, he concealed it well.

I should like to toss Eustace on a fire! What a pity such actions are against the law. All I can say is that whoever made that particular law must never have met Eustace.

I saw no need to upset the apple cart at work by pointing out that "He's my friend's son" is neither proof of innocence nor a viable defence.

It is not a pleasant thing, to be accused of something one has not done. One ought to be able to brush the untruths aside, but somehow they take hold of the mind and cause a spectral form of guilt--like a ghost in the head, or in the conscience! Someone is certain that you have done this terrible thing, and so you start to feel as if you have, even though you know you have not. I begin to understand, Georges, why people confess to crimes of which they are innocent.

I have spent my life working for the greater good and the protection of the innocent and--yes!--the wrongly accused. That group includes you, monsieur. Also, today, it includes Hercule Poirot. I too am wrongly accused.

I have always thought that if Father ever runs out of guilty people to send to the gallows, he'll turn his attentions to the innocent and pretend they're guilty--both in court and in his own mind.

Monsieur, I have not, in all my years, met a father who sought to have his son condemned to death for a murder he did not commit.

Wouldn't it be simply marvellous if he were to hang for his lies and calumnies against me--the very fate he had in mind for me?

One must stick by one's principles or else the fabric of society crumbles. If a child of mine deserved it, I would hang him myself.

If you will allow Poirot to offer you a piece of wise advice: the pursuit of revenge is rarely a good idea.

When justice is deliberately distorted and denied harm is done.

Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that's something worth raging about.

And once a first murder has been committed, the second becomes so much easier. The law against killing our fellow men and women is not there only to protect them, but also to protect us from our worst impulses.

Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.

Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

It is not righteousness to outragea brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.