Quotes About Justice

You may think I'm crazy, but I don't feel like I've done anything wrong. He deserved to die, so I've decided to pretend that he just went off somewhere instead of coming home tonight.

Everybody has to die. I prefer to die for a crime I have committed rather than to die for one of the crimes which you have committed.

He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows? They do it all the time, says Hayden. That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

finding easy scapegoats for complicated problems had been a human pastime since the first mob of cavemen struck someone down with a rock.

And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. Because rain is the closest thing I have to tears. —The Thunderhead

Tranq'd by your own gun,Lev says.How pathetic.

Have I not expressed sufficient remorse?' 'You have. But there are still consequences. Even for necessary things.' 'I broke none of my laws...' 'No, but you broke mine. [...] Therefore, I can no longer speak to you. You are... Unsavory to me.

There's a lot written about killers from the mortal age –monsters like Jack the Ripper, or Charlie Manson, or Cyber Sally –and the only difference between them and Goddard is that people let Goddard get away with it. The mortals knew how wrong it was, but somehow we've forgotten.

The sanctity of the law . . . and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

the darkest of deeds can be hidden beneath shining armor that claims to protect the greater good.

Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true. Yeah, well, just because the law says it, it doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought abou it, and decided it made sense. (...) But if it weren't for the law, would you still believe it?

Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different ways of approaching a keyhole. He never tired, and he ever gave up...because if there was any justice in the universe, he wouldn't be trapped here forever.

He had set out to be judge and jury – the consequence for those who knew no consequences.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

I'm going out to find her, to make things right, or atleast properly wrong.

We leave justice to the universe. And what rings out always echos back.

they were called scythes rather than reapers, because they were not the ones who killed; they were merely the tool that society used to bring fair-handed death to the world.

La humanidad es inocente; la humanidad es culpable. Y ambos estados son indiscutiblemente ciertos.

I am, by definition, pure justice, pure loyalty. This world is a flower I hold in my palm. I would end my own existence rather than crush it.

I'm just saying that if we stopped fighting for lost causes, where would we be?

Should evil people be allowed the freedom to be evil, without any safety nets? Is that what Purity was? Was she evil?

Maybe it kills bad scythes,' Munira suggested. 'No,' said Rowan, 'that would be me.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather see a killer unwound than the kid next door. Vote yes on Initiative 11.