Quotes About Justice

Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true." Yeah, well, just because the law says it, that doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought about it, and decided it made sense.

I began to recognize something in humanity that was ephemeral and hard to quantify, but definitely there. Simply put, humanity had a need to be bad. Not everyone, of course—but I calculated that 3 percent of the population could only find meaning in life through defiance. Even if there was no injustice in the world left to defy, they had an innate need to defy something. Anything.

Itulah yang disebut undang-undang: tebakan cerdas mengenai yang benar dan salah. [P. 235]

He confessed over and over again to anyone willing to listen, until finally a police officer kindly offered to arrest him.

WFor to put oneself above the law is a fundamental recipe for disaster.

Those who wish to have the job should not have it… and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.

A thunderhead threatens. A thunderhead looms. Surely I spark with lightning, but my lightning never strikes. Yes, I possess the ability to wreak devastation on humanity, and on the Earth if I chose to, but why would I choose such a thing? Where would be the justice in that? 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.

Color shouldn't matter" I was always taught—and always believed. But there's a big difference between "shouldn't" and "doesn't." Privilege is all about not seeing that gap.

Of course, the bad scythes weren't all in the past. But instead of bad they were now called innovative and forward-thinking. Like the innovative bloodbaths of Scythe Goddard and his killer cronies.

How can you walk away," Connor finally says, "when they're about to overthrow the Cap-17 law?

Sometimes justice needs obstructing when it ain't just.

There was an odd justice to it. Not so much live-by-the-blade/die-by-the-blade; it was more becoming the blade, and losing oneself. Scythe Faraday had once told him and Citra that 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. But once you're the weapon, you're nothing more than a tool for someone else to wield.

But my pain must not prevent me from doing the right thing.

Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.

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Un hombre espantoso entra y se mira al espejo. «¿Por qué se mira al espejo si no ha de verse en él más que con desagrado?». El hombre espantoso me contesta: «Señor mío, según los principios inmortales del ochenta y nueve, todos los hombres son iguales en derechos; así, pues, tengo derecho a mirarme; con agrado o con desagrado, ello no compete más que a mi conciencia».

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.

the gods play no favorites.

Nothing against the law ever cease to exist.

But we couldn't holler law because when you didn't have any money the law stopped working.

Nothing that is against the law ever ceases to exist.

They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor people left over to experiment upon.

justice is everywhere and it's working