Quotes About Justice

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Time is the only thief we can't get justice against.

The Ranger creed: "No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a-comin'.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs.

The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

Josiah White Buffalo tied the dead man's

There was a time when child molesters would be killed in prison by fellow inmates for their vile acts upon the innocent. If that remains true, I am unaware of it. I realize

is a short step to licensed murder, especially when it is for so-called public benefit.

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

Criminal law, in which the state detects the offence, takes the accused to court and demands and imposes punishment, simply did not exist in early medieval society.

One must be willing to be cruel in the search for truth, but cruelty for no purpose is ignorance.

God legally must make you as righteous as He Himself is in order to have fellowship with you.

In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law: "more often than not they are the occasion of profitless dispute, and when invoked as the conditions of the obligation to observe the conditions prescribed by lex they positively pervert the association: they are the recipe for anarchy" (OH 16o).

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

My heart aches for my people. I don't understand why God gives more power to some and less to others.

I know one thing. If you let your personal hate interfere, you will bury your cause." We

only inasmuch as the injury had been secret, she was doing herself justice as best she could.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are all getting exactly what we deserve.

Good actions lead to success, as good medicines to a cure: a healthy man is joyful, and a diligent man attains learning; a just man gains the reward of his virtue.

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.