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Quotes About Justice

If a man stole my dinner, I might let him run; but if he stole my horse, he and I and death would play hide-and-seek! ~~ Ranjoor Singh
~ Talbot Mundy
Man, just so you know,...I am NEVER getting on your bad side. Vince forced half a grin. Like we say in Chicago. She had it coming.
~ Tami Hoag
the same privilege
~ Tami Hoag
handcuffs, no pistol-whipping . . .
~ Tami Hoag
The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.
~ Tamora Pierce
Haven't you ever noticed that people who win say it's because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn't the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.
~ Tamora Pierce
I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it. She looked back at him. I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.
~ Tamora Pierce
If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period. Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.
~ Tamora Pierce
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
~ Tamora Pierce
So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.
~ Tamora Pierce
What was unreasonable about asking those that had the coin to build the kingdom up again? They made enough riches off of us.
~ Tamora Pierce
People with a good life would defend it more vigorously than people who were beaten down by their masters and their fates.
~ Tamora Pierce
Me," she said at last. "You should pick me." "But you're a girl." It was impossible to tell what he was thinking. "So?" she demanded. "Even Captain Sklaw says I'll be a swordsman yet. I'm as good an archer as Alex, and he's a boy and a squire. I'm a better tracker than Raoul. And have I ever failed you? Back there, or when you had the Fever—" "I'm glad you agree
~ Tamora Pierce
He deserves to die - but do you deserve to kill him?
~ Tamora Pierce
An account has come due. Debts must be settled.
~ Tamora Pierce
The person who commits an action is the one responsible for it, not the people he commits the action upon.
~ Tamora Pierce (Author)
Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.
~ Tanith Lee
Not everyone can be equal in wealth, but no one should have to starve.
~ Tanya Huff
criminalist
~ Ted Bell
The purpose of revolution is to abolish unnecessary suffering.
~ Ted Rall
The mere punishment of the defendants, or even thousands of others equally guilty, can never redress the terrible injuries which the Nazis visited on these unfortunate peoples. For them it is far more important that these incredible events be established by clear and public proof, so that no one can ever doubt that they were fact and not fable.
~ Telford Taylor
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?
~ Tennessee Williams
It isn't fair. It isn't fair that it's me and not someone else, and it isn't fair that it should be anyone.
~ Julia Quinn
The lesson here is that a U.S. Attorney with a vendetta and endless pockets of our tax dollars at work is far more terrifying than the devil himself.
~ Julia Reed