Quotes About Justice

Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadma.

Nquitia ipsa poena su est. (Publilius

Suum cuique pulchrum est.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom, Jonathan said. There is no other.

En doÄŸru yasa bizi özgürlüÄŸe götürecek oland?r.

Are you decent? Richards asked. Yes! she stormed. isn't that why you picked on me? Because I was defenseless and... decent?... If you're so decent, how come you have six thousand New Dollars to buy this fancy car while my little girls dies of flu?

Eindeutige Tatsachen sind, wie immer, Verhandlungssache – das lernte man schnell im Anwaltsberuf

History will not absolve us if we do not, once and for all, reveal all that is known about the greatest, most tragic murder mystery in American History. After all, 90 percent of the American people believe that there was a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy.

There are those in positions of power who malign the pursuit of justice by intentionally associating the word "conspiracy" with the delirious hallucinations of unbalanced minds. They're wrong. The real-world definition of conspiracy is simply two or more persons agreeing to commit a crime. In short, they are everywhere, a constant component of daily events throughout our history, and are by no means the restless imaginings of an over-attentive audience.

Just. Why, zounds! will you hear me or no?

My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.

In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it? The following offences merit the death penalty, according to Leviticus 20: cursing your parents; committing adultery; making love to your stepmother or your daughter-in-law; homosexuality; marrying a woman and her daughter; bestiality (and, to add injury to insult, the unfortunate beast is to be killed too).

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment—thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment - thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sins pass down in the semen too?

Do we really need policing — whether by God or by each other — in order to stop us from behaving in a selfish and criminal manner?

Bush presided over more executions in Texas than any other governor in the state's history, averaging one death every nine days.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation....In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

Memory's only like justice, because it is another wrong idea that makes people feel right.

It's hard to go through life without killing someone.

Mississippi is the center of the universe," he said. "The two biggest issues in western Christian civilization are the white-black race issue and the rich-and-poor issue. Mississippi is at the apex of both. And if anybody in the world can solve the problem, it's Mississippi.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declared in an opinion upholding the constitutionality of such a law.

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT—WHY DON'T YOU TRY IT FOR A WHILE?