Quotes About Justice

A good cop, a smart cop, closes cases and locks up the bad guys.

It matters, Eve, that you came from monsters. Matters, he continued, gripping her chin in his hand, because, coming from them, you chose to make yourself into a woman who hunts the monsters. Not for vengeance, as would surely have been my choice, but for justice. I built a house. You built a hero.

Do you think any of us go anywhere until we have the truth? Do you think there's peace without justice?" "No, I don't," Eve admitted, knowing it would always drive her.

There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

When we get him," Eve continued, "it's going to come out that she—this symbol—knocked him around or boo-hoo broke his heart or made him feel weak and helpless. So his defense lawyers will come along saying: Oh, he was damaged, poor sick son of a bitch. He's not responsible. And that's a pile of shit, that's a big, smelly pile of bullshit. Because nobody's responsible for choking the life out of Elisa Maplewood but him. Nobody.

Roarke wondered if she thought of how many more would be hers—victims and killers. And knew, as he knew her, she did.

Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord. —Romans 12:19

I thought it was 'innocent until proven guilty'' That's just one of the bigger lies we live by.

Murder, at least, Eve understood.

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't." And that, Eve realized, might be the long and short of why she'd made Peabody her partner.

She now had a small army of cops to—if they actually found the bastard—take down one man. But she understood the sentiment, and the need. You came for one, you came for all.

Stuff it, Jerry. This isn't just police business. It's humanity's business. Humanity, Jerry!

And what this small and, yes, treacherous, percentage of all the good men and women who work and risk and fight every single day has done to diminish that work, that risk, that fight, it weighs heavily.

was, Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People. And it's true enough. But a gun gives them a hell of a lot of help.

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. —Blaise Pascal

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Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow." "I'm thinking a T-shirt.

Nothing legal makes you feel that good, honey. Or that mean. And she was feeling good and mean.

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Nobody should let cops like you slide. You think the badge is some sort of protection for you? Some sort of hammer you can toss around? It's your fucking responsibility, your goddamn duty, not your cushion and not your weapon.

We're all-inclusive in Homicide, 'cause whatever your race, color, or creed, you can get dead.

NO MATTER YOUR RACE, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR POLITICAL AFFILIATION, WE PROTECT AND SERVE, BECAUSE YOU COULD GET DEAD.

Dallas, Lieutenant Eve, and aide, Peabody