Quotes About Justice

And so she wrote, and wept; and when the weeping was done, the writing went on. When the hair that he had left behind was sealed in a small box and buried in the grass near Human's root, she would stand and speak. Her voice would raise him from the dead, make him live again in memory. And she would also be merciful; and she would also be just. That much, at least, she had learned from him.

The law didn't make witch trials happen. It was the hunger for witch trials that got them to make up the law.

that's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

Blamelessness does not relieve us of responsibility

But how can you be God, if Justice is more powerful than you?" I am his daughter, five hundred generations from him. Shouldn't the children of God learn something in that time? Lared

He was scum, and so it was all right that they treated him like scum.' 'And you think he wasn't?' 'No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Je n'ai pas un amour particulier pour l' ouvrier idéalisé tel que se le représente l'esprit bourgeois du communiste, mais quand je vois un véritable ouvrier en chair et en os en conflit avec son ennemi naturel, l'agent de police, je n'ai pas besoin de me demander de quel coté je suis.

Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali degli altri

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Save us from enormities whether open or hidden

Satyagraha: the revelation of truth and the confrontation of injustice through nonviolent means.

It's a tragedy that we need to continually prove that we are human beings.

where he might variously be called a terrorist or a martyr or a murderer or a guerrilla or a freedom fighter

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.