Quotes About Justice

It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore

Not that he regretted having killed the guy in Stockton. The one who'd been ready to shoot him over the five crumpled dollar bills in his jeans pocket. He was quite happy to have sent that particular home boy to hell.

Jenny looked up quickly. "Do you believe in good and evil?" "Oh, yes. Very strongly. And I believe that evil sometimes has to be fought—personally. Hand to hand. If you care enough to do it.

He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can't return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.

I would have understood if they had killed him.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Whatever difference may appear in men's fortunes, there is nevertheless a certain compensation of good and ill that makes all equal.

The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

O that all human hearts might join the strain; Then Hate, and Bigotry, and Sin would die; Then Peace would reign and wear its olive crown, And War with blood-stained feet no longer track Earth's fair domain, or wave its crimson flag. Then Pride would lay its flaunting mantle by; The cry of Hunger cease--the oppressor's rod Would scourge no more, but man be linked to man In one unbroken chain of brotherhood.

There was a mathematical elegance to faith like this: believe in God, follow His rules, and you will be rewarded; disbelieve, disobey, and you will be punished.

My whole life has been lived in-between -- in between languages, in between cultures, in between countries ... My life resisted the kind of easy categories that the head of state had outlined for everyone. Surely, I told myself, a nation was a community, with views that are by necessity different, often divergent, and occasionally contradictory. Surely, true allegiance meant speaking up when something wasn't right.

You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.

As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough

These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

Kindly confirm: If someone's evil, then killing them isn't murder. It's SLAYING, and not only legal but encouraged. Correct?

It's the fuel for everything our people have done to each other since the beginning. That's what makes peace seem impossible. How can you blame someone for wanting to kill the killer of their loved ones? How can you fault people for what they do in grief?

La clemencia engendra clemencia, igual que las masacres devienen en masacres.