Quotes About Justice

Peace, gentlemen, it is well known, does not come of its own accord, and neither does freedom. Peace has enemies. Peace must be won by the sword.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

Paths to crime are not neatly divided

Our procedure has always been haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream. What we need to fear is the archaic formalism and the watery sentiment that obstructs, delays, and defeats the prosecution of crime.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

Enough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play and decent restraint. But Reacher didn't live there. He lived in a world where you don't start fights but you sure as hell finish them, and you don't lose them either, and he was the inheritor of generations of hard-won wisdom that said the best way to lose them was to assume they were over when they weren't yet.

The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound. Of course, we feel that it is not for us, those who love righteousness, to jump on the necks of the wicked. We prefer to have it attended to in a more dignified, impersonal way by Society as a whole.

The bad guys are whoever it is who think they are better than everybody else. This world needs to be turned upside down.

You and I have a problem, Ronin. You think you're working alone, that we all exist here to shine a spotlight on you and your crusades. You've disrespected me and now, by arresting Towler at our front door, you've disrespected everybody in this building and possibly in the entire department.

It disturbed Eve, though, that Claire believed that a young female detective would be more motivated than a man to investigate the sexual assault of a woman. Was there any merit to that belief?

You really think you can get away with punishing a detective who was shot by a deputy and two days later, despite her wounds and her place getting firebombed, caught the killer of a city councilman? She has your balls in a vise and knows it.

No offense, but there have been enough cop shows about white, middle-aged, male homicide detectives. But we're going to stay honest to your reality." Simone glanced at Eve. "Especially yours.