Quotes About Justice

Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian. Let's go then. Hump up there, stranger, and let's go get hung.

Pomisli da možda u istoriji sveta ?ak i ima više kazni nego zlo?ina, ali ne bi mu to uteha.

That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference.

I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution. I didnt have to go but I did. I sure didnt want to. He'd killed a fourteen year old girl and I can tell you right now I never did have no great desire to visit with him let alone go to his execution but I done it.

And you will never know the depth of your heart until you are presented with the opportunity for revenge. Only then will you know what you are capable of.

Naw. Just us old country niggers. We kind of make it a point to call things for what they is. I'd hate to guess how many names they is for the jailhouse. I'd hate to have to count em.

Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all.

The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.

The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.

Torbert nodded. You and the sheriff goin to come down and get me off of death row? If we cant get you out we'll get in there with you. You all dont be makin light of the dead thataway, Bell said. Wendell nodded. Yessir, he said. You're right. I might be one myself some day.

There's little equity in the Lord's gifts.

Two wrongs don't make a riot.

When people want to be reimbursed for their pain they seldom are.

He said that it was a mistake to expect too much of justice in this world. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation?

A lawyer aint a priest. Nor a doctor. Law's more vagrant than sickness or sin. We make our case. We'd be fools to say what a dozen other fools might think of it.

What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.

Would it have done any good? No sir. But that dont make it right.

Vous ne me laisserez pas plaider ma cause. Je connais votre cause. Votre cause c'est qu'il s'est passé certaines choses sur lesquelles vous n'avez aucun pouvoir. C'est vrai. Je suis certaine que c'est vrai. Mais ça ne fait pas une cause. Je n'ai pas de sympathie pour les gens auxquels des choses arrivent. C'est peut-être la malchance, mais est-ce que cela doit compter en leur faveur ?

You didnt slack up on him just the littlest bit? No. I dont believe in it.

Ah Priest, said the judge. What could I ask of you that you've not already given?

The good book says that he that lives by the sword shall perish by the sword, said

When you hear a sobbing child say it's not fair you are always hearing the truth.

Might does not make right, said Irving.

Let's hang the turd, called an ugly thug from the gallery...