Quotes About Justice

Only when all must bow to the same law is every person free.

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself.

While it was understandable to be afraid, and no one would expect you not to be, the worst thing you could do was to run from the trouble you had caused. No matter how accidental it was, you didn't try to deny it. You didn't run. You did what you must to right it.

Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather

Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I can't stand by and watch. I have to act. It isn't easy to absolve one's self of guilt.

Moral compromise rejects the concept of right and wrong. It says that everyone is equal, all desires are equally valid, all action is equally valid, so everyone should compromise to get along.

Of all the people who came before us, Magda, you were the only one who represented truth. I want you to know that. - Councilman Sadler

A Seeker is a person who answers to no one but himself; he is a law unto himself. The Sword of Truth is his to wield as he wishes, and within the limits of his own strength, he can hold anyone to answer for anything.

Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn't necessarily wrong.

I want you to use me to create a Confessor.

If I was a nobody you wouldn't be so eager to see me dead. Just like these people you know that I am devoted to the truth. That is why you want to eliminate me. - Magda Searus

Avoir de la compassion pour les coupables revient à trahir les innocents.

People, if they don't take the lives of others, have the right to live their life.

Every murderer thinks the victim needed killing.

This is the Sword of Truth.

Rational moral choices are based on the value of life, not a consensus. A consensus can't make the sun rise at midnight, nor can it change a wrong into a right, or the other way around. If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand other men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

People more and more view law and order, and view the police who are representatives of law and order, as oppressors rather than protectors.

Don't shed tears over those already in the ground, until after you have brought vengeance to those who put them there. There will be time enough, then.

All, no matter their means, must have an investment in their freedom, and will pay their part. This principle is law, and inviolate.

Whoever wins thinks he was in the right. The loser will always believe himself wronged.

Justice is not the exercise of hatred, it is the celebration of civilization.

There is nothing fair about having to fight in war. The only fair thing would be to live in peace. The purpose of war is singular: to kill.

Morality comes from the top, such as parent to child. The first step, then, is to set down just laws and show that all of us must live by its maxims. You can never stop all wrongdoing, but if you don't punish it, then it proliferates until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

Don't lay a cloak of guilt around my shoulders because others are evil.