Quotes About Justice

No human being can possibly injure another without injuring himself more. He cannot do wrong without paying for it in corresponding suffering.

Pavlik denounced his father's crimes, and when Trofim shouted out, 'It's me, your father,' the boy told the judge: 'Yes, he used to be my father, but I no longer consider him my father. I am not acting as a son, but as a Pioneer.

I hold that the real policy of England – apart from questions which involve her own particular interests, political or commercial – is to be the champion of justice and right; pursuing that course with moderation and prudence, not becoming the Quixote of the world, but giving the weight of her moral sanction and support wherever she thinks that justice is, and wherever she thinks that wrong has been done.20

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things." Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.

Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne.

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill, said John [Adams]. Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

He did what he thought was right

Maybe it isn't based on what you deserve. Maybe it's based on what you need.

I hear they whip you for stealing. Or put you in jail, or sell you into slavery, or kill you, depending on the town and what mood they're in.

People are never fair, even when they try to be...and few are the ones who try.

That's why he hates you, because you didn't suffer when he tried to punish you.

Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation - that is the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on victim, especially when he strikes back.

If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.

Evil isn't best served by equally evil servants.

There are times when you have to defend yourself or someone else against relentless evil. And some of those times the only defense that has any hope of succeeding is a one-time use of brutal, devastating force. At such times good people act brutally.

God lets the guilty live right among the good, hurting them all they want; he lets the tares grow amid the corn.

Fairness is a wonderful attribute, Major Anderson. It has nothing to do with war.

Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder against the innocent.

Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder against the innocent. How many times are you lucky enough to get an enemy like that?

Because Garden cannot survive one-nineteenth slave and eighteen-nineteenths free. A house divided against itself cannot stand!