Quotes About Justice

Sometimes the innocent suffer with the guilty. They can get caught in the backwash.

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil;

Francis Weller says, "The idea that you have to earn a living is a tragic way to think about being a human being." Especially if that's your only way of thinking about your one precious life. This is why the current state is a scandal. It's not just because of what happened in the past. It's because what happened is still happening. Karma is living energy that gets manifested in economics, politics, and the justice system.

Revenge is a confession of pain

That's not fair." "It's not," he agreed. But it's the truth. Never assume that the two will ride side by side.

Update: Caleb Norton remains in a comma with no brain function. The hit-and-run driver remains at large.

I think it's important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart - and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.

She was well aware that some people—particularly the older guys—thought she'd only been promoted to detective because she was a woman. It was possible they were right. But she'd worked her ass off, too.

what he really disliked were people who thought they were above the law. The law was the law, and no one was exempt.

The sad fact was, most police departments didn't have the money to make use of all the fancy technology available now. Even when DNA was available from a bloody murder weapon, a rape kit, it typically gathered dust in some evidence room until the case was headed to trial, if it ever went. But

In keeping with the American effort to reconcile with Japan, all of them, including those serving life sentences, would soon be paroled. It appears that even Sueharu Kitamura, "the Quack," was set free, in spite of his death sentence. By 1958, every war criminal who had not been executed would be free, and on December 30 of that year, all would be granted amnesty. Sugamo would be torn down, and the epic ordeals of POWs in Japan would fade from the world's memory.

With communism wicking across the Far East, America's leaders began to see a future alliance with Japan as critical to national security. The sticking point was the war-crimes issue; the trials were intensely unpopular in Japan, spurring a movement seeking the release of all convicted war criminals. With the pursuit of justice for POWs suddenly in conflict with America's security goals, something had to give.

Rebellion without reprisal is one of democracy's perks, right?

Doing the right thing has power.

Not everyone has to get the same things all the time in order for life to be fair.

I analyzed hundreds of consumer complaint letters sent to my brother, the consumer activist Ralph Nader throughout the 1960s and 1970s, in the hope that he would do something about their problems. Some of those letters were published in No Access to Law and formed the basis

Vengeance is not reflective or flexible; it's implacable and blind. It has nothing to do with justice. Whoever believes that he is enforcing justice through vengeance is just lying to himself. It is about something much more primal, more bestial.

Le han dictado pena máxima: sesenta años. Suena infinito y sin embargo es poco, no hay vida que alcance para pagar lo que hizo.

Rape is not a mistake! He did it on purpose, over and over again because he wanted to, because he off on it-

There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do the third reason being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.

There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do. (42)

Everyone always thinks they're the good guys,' said Ruby. 'Yes they do,' said LB. 'But happily for us, we are.' 'Well you might know that but how do I?

Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn't like you.