Quotes About Justice

Two kinds of cops eat their gun: the corrupt ones and the ones who let the dead lay claim upon the quick.

James Lee Burke

If you're poor and you commit a crime, the legal system works quickly and leaves you in pieces all over the highway. If you're educated and have money, the process becomes a drawn-out affair, like a terminal cancer patient who can afford various kinds of treatment all over the world. But eventually he ends up at Lourdes.

Besides, isn't it better to let evil die inside its own flame?

What we do is punish the people who are available," she said.

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

I've killed men against whom I had no grievance.

James Lee Burke

Maybe justice is finally catching up with this asshole.

How many lives would have been spared had we not lent ourselves to the defense of a repellent cause like slavery?

The recidivists think their rap sheets have the historical importance of the Magna Carta; their jailhouse tats are the equivalent of military citations.

I don't like to bust drunk drivers. I don't like to listen to their explanations, watch their pitiful attempts to affect sobriety, or see the sheen of fear break out in their eyes when they realize they're headed for the drunk tank with little to look forward to in the morning except the appearance of their names in the newspaper. Or maybe in truth I just don't like to see myself when I look into their faces.

He was going to kill you," she said. "And me. Fair's fair. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a candy for a candy, a penny for your thoughts." "Still and all. We don't kill unless we have to." River reflected on this, then smiled brightly. "Okay! That's a good rule." "I like to think so.

The Truant is no longer on the wanted list, sir. Minimal collateral casualties.

Propelled by fear or hatred, even a Jedi can pass beyond the constraints of the Order's teachings and discover power of a more profound sort. But no Jedi who arrives at that place, who has risen above his or her allegiance to peace and justice, who kills in anger or out of desire, can lay real claim to the dark side of the Force.

As I say, they don't teach it at the academy, but you learn it on the job: not every man's death is a crime.

Didn't you got back? I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.

James M. McPherson

a Quaker abolitionist with "a reasonable leaning toward wrath in cases of emergency

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

Everybody went to jail in the Cause eventually. You could be the tiniest ant able to slip into a crack in the sidewalk, or a rocket ship that flew fast enough to break the speed of sound, it didn't matter. When society dropped its hammer on your head, well, there it is.

He didn't look mad, but he didn't look like Martin Luther King neither.

Ain't no worse thing in the world than fronting up against one of those, for a man with a cause, right or wrong, has got plenty to prove, and will make you suck sorrow if you get in the way of 'em wrongly.