Quotes About Justice

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

He didn't know who he was messing with, did he, Papa? asked Grant, giving his karate pose. Papa laughed. No, Grant, he didn't. He finally picked on a family he couldn't outsmart. I guess he'll go to jail now. With moose hair up his nose! said Alex and they all laughed.

So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands. And

Forgiveness is essential to healing, because it requires you to surrender your ego's need to have life fall into place around your personal version of justice.

The word deserve causes immeasurable pain.

At the end of the day, we all live in our own inner world created by our own archetypes, stories, myths, wounds, sense of entitlement, and curious system of logic, order, and justice.

I believe the church of Jesus Christ should be first in line to champion the empowerment of women and girls throughout the world to become contributing members in their societies.

Instead of an unstoppable force for good and justice in the world and a deadly threat to the Enemy, male-female relationships have been dismantled of power.

As a movement, feminism arose because women were being sinned against. I think that is a fair argument. But feminism also arose because women were sinning in response. That's a classic human problem: Sinners tend to sin in response to being sinned against.

I think we are here to make the world a better place then we found it. I think we do not always deserve the cards that we are dealt-good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we are dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good-we just have to work a little more is all. There is no destiny. There is just muddling through without doing too much damage. ---Kitty Norville

I think we're here to make the world a better place than we found it. I think we don't always deserve the cards that we're dealt, good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we're dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good—we just have to work a little more is all. There's no destiny. There's just muddling through without doing too much damage.

Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of the Abolition of Slavery

Years later Tubman likened her decision to an epiphany: "I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."40

There's fire in you, Julie. I can see you out there in the street, carrying a banner for all the underprivileged people of the world.

The justice of nature is a pledge of reciprocal usefulness ... neither to harm one another nor to be harmed … Justice was not a thing in its own right, but [exists] in mutual dealings in whatever places there [is] a pact about neither harming one another nor being harmed. ~ Epicurus

THE TIME LORD OATH 'I swear to protect the ancient law of Gallifrey with all my might and main and will to the end of my days with justice and with honour temper my actions and my thoughts.

The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced.

NO. For someone to win, somebody else must lose. For that person to have won they must have lost something in the first place. The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced. Not even justice itself is perfect.

I was right. And right wins every time.

Isn't it better to arrest and prosecute a hundred innocent people and catch among them one spy than to let the spy go free?

Better that ten innocent people should suffer," he said, "than one spy get away.

You might have been paid back enough to suit you I said, but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.