Quotes About Justice

He was a violent, unjust man. Why the plague germs spared him I can never understand. It would seem, in spite of our old metaphysical notions about absolute justice, that there is no justice in the universe. Why did he live?—an iniquitous, moral monster, a blot on the face of nature, a cruel, relentless, bestial cheat as well. All

Io non credo alle fiamme e allo zolfo dell'inferno; ma in momenti come questo rimpiango la mia miscredenza. No, in momenti come questo io quasi ci credo. Deve esistere per forza un inferno, perché in nessun altro posto voi potrete ricevere una punizione adeguata ai vostri crimini. Fino a quando esisterà gente come voi, l'inferno sarà un'esigenza essenziale del cosmo.

Bill—that was it; Bill, the Chauffeur. That was his name. He was a wretched, primitive man, wholly devoid of the finer instincts and chivalrous promptings of a cultured soul. No, there is no absolute justice, for to him fell that wonder of womanhood, Vesta Van Warden. The grievous-ness of this you will never understand, my grandsons; for you are yourselves primitive little savages, unaware of aught else but savagery. Why

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

C'è un proverbio che afferma che la verità viene sempre a galla. Sono arrivata a dubitare di tale proverbio. Sono trascorsi diciannove anni e nonostante tutti i nostri incessanti sforzi, non siamo riusciti a trovare l'uomo che realmente lanciò la bomba.

What's right got to do with it? he demanded back. You see all those books. He moved his hand over the array of volumes on the walls of his tiny office. All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what is right. But you go to those books to learn . . . law.

herkes suçlu olunca kimse cezaland?r?lamazd?.

Adaleti de adaletsizli?i de kendi tanr?lar?n?n elinden almas? gerekiyordu.

Suç hakikaten de hastal???n ta kendisi. Suçlu, yani haks?z davranan kiÅŸi, hastad?r ve bu yüzden gerektiÄŸince tedavi edilmelidir ki hastal???ndan kurtulabilsin.

T'sain shrugged. "I have lived little, and I am not wise. Yet I know that everyone is entitled to life.

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow.

I inquire yours?" "I am Kirth Gersen.

As soon as the police slip out from under the firm thumb of a suspicious local tribune, they become arbitrary, merciless, a law unto themselves. They think no more of justice, but only of establishing themselves as a privileged and envied elite. They mistake the attitude of natural caution and uncertainty of the civilian populace as admiration and respect, and presently start to swagger back and forth, jingling their weapons in megalomaniacal euphoria.

Farmer hauled before constabulary court after attack upon the person of Bose Coggindell, Fellow of the Institute, 54th Degree, in self-justification: "These chaps have it easy. They lean back in their chairs and say, 'Suffer, you'll love it. Do it the hard way. Sweat.' They'd like me to hitch my wife to a plow, the way it used to be done. So I showed him what I thought of what he calls 'detachment'." Justice (after fining farmer 75 SVU):

Humanity many times has had sad experience of super-powerful police forces … As soon as (the police) slip from under the firm thumb of a suspicious local tribune, they become arbitrary, merciless, a law unto themselves.

Kill, don't mourn.

For the Mongols, the law was more a way of handling problems, creating unity, and preserving peace rather than just a tool for deciding guilt or administering punishment.

Once, Colin Forbes went on the trail of a shadowy character who had trussed, robbed, then killed a Vine Street tailor, leaving behind only the heelprint of a cowboy's boot on his victim's forehead. It took him two years, but he traced the boot to Texas and then found the murderer in an Army camp right in California.

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

Vengeance and love didn't make for good bedfellows.

I bid you to aid one another. Let the wealthy have charity for the poor. Let the strong have mercy on the weak. And I promise, if we are victorious, such a time shall never come again.

Not even the King is above the rule of law.

It's not enough to say that you want equality, Ro. What do you intend to do about it?

But for Maisie the case notes would not be filed away until those whole lives were touched by her investigation had reached a certain peace with her findings, with themselves, and with one another - as far as that might be possible.