Quotes About Justice

I'm going to find whoever put this creature through that torture, and I'm going to kill them slowly. Piece by piece.

The two of them, Cassida and Gabriel, thought they could simply take everything she'd worked for. They thought she would roll over. Ramona laughed. It sounded like a promise of murder. "We'll catch them," Matias said, his voice cold like the space between the stars. "I give you my word.

The concepts of right or wrong are always consequential. It can't be situational or it's not right or wrong.

Look into my eyes and despair. For I'm Punishment, and you cannot escape me.

angry people aren't interested in justice. They just want an excuse to vent their rage.

They were fodder, but to him they were children, just like he had once been a child. Just like Jack. He had to find Spider. He had to kill him. Child murder had to be punished.

Because killing random people just because they did something you don't like makes you the bad guy.

Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it's a matter of emotion, not logic. You see, angry people aren't interested in justice. They just want an excuse to vent their rage.

He shook his head. "Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one." "How do you decide what is a 'small' wrong? Let's say, you buy the safety of many with the life of a child. That child means everything to her parents. You devastated them. There is no greater wrong you can

He shook his head. "Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one." "How do you decide what is a 'small' wrong? Let's say, you buy the safety of many with the life of a child. That child means everything to her parents. You devastated them. There is no greater wrong you can do to them. Why would that be a 'small' evil?

They say a hundred-and-thirty-pound woman has no chance against an athletic two-hundred-pound man. That's a lie. You just have to make a decision to hurt him and then do it.

Sometimes killing a man wasn't an act of anger or punishment. It was a public service.

Revenge was sometimes best served hot.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.

Une politique valable ne peut faire un pas sans rendre hommage à la morale.

Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself.

No one may force anyone to be happy according to his manner of imagining the well-being of other men; instead, everyone may seek his happiness in the way that seems good to him as long as he does not infringe on the freedom of others to pursue a similar purpose, when such freedom may coexist with the freedom of every other man according to a possible and general law.

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

Thus there is an analogy between the juridical relation of human actions and the mechanical relation of moving forces. I never can do anything to another man without giving him a right to do the same to me on the same conditions; just as no body can act with its moving force on another body without thereby causing the other to react equally against it.

We] believe, or assume to believe, that [we] satisfy [our] duty to [humanity] if [we] first provide fully for [our] own material wants and then pay [our] tribute to the universal provider by giving a little to the poor. But if [we] were scrupulously just there would be no poor to whom we could give alms and think that we had realized the merit of benevolence. Better than charity, better than giving of our surplus is conscientious and scrupulously fair conduct and a helping hand in need.

Footnote: The real morality of actions—their merit or demerit, and even that of our own conduct, is completely unknown to us. Our estimates can relate only to their empirical character. How much is the result of the action of free will, how much is to be ascribed to nature and to blameless error, or to a happy constitution of temperament (merito fortunae), no one can discover, nor, for this reason, determine with perfect justice.]