Quotes About Justice

I can tell him what you've said." "He'll ignore it. And Buffalo Bill will go on and on. Wait until he scalps one and see how you like it. Ummmm Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I'll tell you one thing about Buffalo Bill without ever seeing the case, and years from now when they catch him, if they ever do, you'll see that I was right and I could have helped. I could have saved lives. Clarice?

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night-light; she knew that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering "Is this all?

It occurred to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

I inked up Lombard and all his Merry Men, major case prints whether they said they had touched her or not. They're scrubbing their hands and bitching now.

You may have noticed in the paper yesterday, God dropped a church roof on thirty-four of His worshipers in Texas Wednesday night—just as they were groveling through a hymn. Don't you think that felt good?

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.

It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.

Hurt inflicted, if lesse than the benefit of transgressing, is not punishment... and is rather the Price, or Redemption, than the Punishment of a Crime.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.

As George Orwell might have said, with socialism all men are created equal, only some are more equal than others.

Of course, no one can have a right to such material things unless someone else can be compelled to pay for them.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.