Quotes About Justice

Just as only one week ago, the respected and dedicated defender of justice, Cicely Towers had her life brought to an end.

I have reason to believe vigilantes grow to like their work. That power, unchecked, will corrupt its own agenda. That violence, given impunity and approval, breeds more.

It seemed only fair.

We're not going to let a bad guy screw with one of us," Peabody said as they got on the elevator. "And that's a fact.

You've got a knack for the dead and the innocent.

The law doesn't always stand for the innocent and used. The law doesn't always care enough. I won't apologize for what I did, Eve, but I will for putting you in the position of choosing between me and your duty.

It's rare in war for either side to consider the innocent." Why

People sue the clouds if it rains on their picnic.

Batman, kid. Even you've heard of Batman." "Yeah, yeah, vigilante with psychotic tendencies who dresses up in a weird bat costume. Rich playboy by day, right?

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Do you hope you can expiate the crimes of the past by suffering in the present?

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. But we live in a world of laws, I said to my poor prisoner, a world of the second best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.

Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

The dead cannot be cheated, cannot be betrayed, unless you carry them with you in your heart and do the crime there.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. But we live in a world of laws, a world of the second-best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is to uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.

Es posible, pero hay consideraciones superiores a obedecer la ley, imperativos superiores. –Ah, ¿sí? No lo sabía. Gracias, pero a mí me basta con la ley.

Sin embargo, y regreso a mi primera pregunta, ¿acaso es bueno que el imperio de la ley no conceda excepciones? Si la ley se aplica sin excepciones, ¿qué lugar queda para la compasión?

Qué le da a un desconocido, a un hombre que no la vio en su vida, el derecho a ponerse una toga escarlata y decir: «Una vida entera de encierro, ese es el valor de su vida»? O bien: «Veinticinco años en las minas de sal». ¡No tiene ningún sentido! ¡Hay crímenes que no se pueden medir!

He's paid his debt to society. You can't keep a man in jail because you think he might commit a crime

the degree of someone's just punishment is not a function of how long it took to commit the deed; rather, it's a function of how severe the deed itself was.

people will be sentenced in accordance with their deeds...God's justice is proportional. There is not exactly the same justice for everyone who refuses the mercy of God.

Vengeance was one hell of a roommate.

You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel