Quotes About Justice

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

You can't kill an American Citizen without benefit of a trial." "I can if you're on the list, traitor." "LIST? What list? What the hell are you talking about?" BLACK LIST, July 24

Style is the ultimate morality of mind." ... [It has] a double aim of complete fidelity to fact and to one's complex sense of fact. ... We are shooting at a star when we aim at style in this sense; we are trying to do justice at once to an infinity without and a near infinity within.

True respect is not just shown in how we treat those in positions of power, but also those who are vulnerable and marginalized.

On the back of every right, there's a wrong looming.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

Hello, a cheerful voice said in his mind. Would you like to destroy some evil today?

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

Brandon Sanderson

I will protect even those I hate," Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. "So long as it is right.

One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves. --Second Ideal of the Knights Radiant

Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king […] White to be bold. White to not blend into the night. White to give warning. For if you were going to assassinate a man, he was entitled to see you coming.

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination. I will protect those who cannot protect themselves. I will protect even those I hate so long as it is right.

The law is not something holy, son. It's just a reflection of the ideals of those lucky enough to be in charge.

The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit—but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.

Is anything fair?" He smiled. "Death is. He treats us all the same.