Quotes About Justice

Because despite the torture he'd been put through, the pain and loss he did not believe he had done anything to deserve, he had tried to be a decent person, tried to stay within the confines of morality. And all it had gotten him was more suffering.

if you're hell-bent on lookin' for fairness, you're on the wrong damn planet.

I need to see the world put back on its axis, things put right, even if I don't belong in it anymore.

People who've been traumatized by a crime are victims, too. Finding ways to comfort them is also part of my job.

Murder is murder. Everything else is just details

Setiap kali melakukan pekerjaan ini, ada satu hal yang selalu muncul di benak saya. Saat terjadi kasus pembunuhan brutal, yang saya pikirkan bukan hanya menangkap si pelaku, tapi juga menyelidiki mengapa peristiwa itu bisa terjadi. Jika tidak, kesalahan sama akan terulang kembali. Banyak hal yang bisa dipelajari dari suatu kejadian. Kaga

Tapi, tugas seorang detektif bukan hanya itu. Siapa pun yang menderita karena sebuah kasus, dia juga termasuk korban. Mencari cara untuk menyelamatkan korban seperti itu juga termasuk tugas detektif.

Was it true? She had to know. She felt the love and the hatred in her heart tearing her in two, and realized that she would kill for the truth. And so she decided – she would go through with it. She would become this man's wife, always by his side, holding his fate in her hands, delaying the time of his punishment. She would give him a chance to earn her forgiveness.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

It being a certain truth that those who who are born to be hanged will never be drowned.

There are millions of people who long for a relationship with God, but who cannot find that relationship in a church that will not own up to its limitations, it mistakes, its failure to put peace and justice and love ahead of self-interest and success and doctrinal correctness. There are millions of thinking, caring people in the church right now who find it hard to remain in an institution that will not take seriously its own faults and flaws and the abuse that it heaps upon its members.

I'm sick of chasing shadows. But that's where the bad guys are.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

The cross represents the power that denigrates human bodies, destroys life, and preys on the most vulnerable in society. As the cross is defeated, so too is that power.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!

It's a reckoning I'm after.

Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in if there was no lawyers.

Sometimes there's just no justice. The bad guys do live, if not happily ever after, then certainly conspicuously.