Quotes About Justice

but my schadenfreude was dampened by the knowledge that if Detective Hernandez didn't have it in for me before, she sure as shootin' did now.

Men who hurt Women are my favorite men to kill. Touch her and I'll send you straight to hell - with a smile on my face!

You broke the Man Code, dude. 'No man shall knowingly and with malice aforethought kick another man in the nuts.' Okay, so I kicked him in the nuts. The little fucker was fleeing the scene of a crime where he'd pointed a weapon at my buddies. [from short story Beer Run at the end of Skin Deep]

Throughout the ages the ideal of satya (truth) has permeated Hindu society. Marco Polo tells us that the Brahmins "would not utter a lie for anything on earth." An English judge in India, William Sleeman, says in his Journey Through Oudh in 1849–50: "I have had before me hundreds of cases in which a man's property, liberty, or life depended on his telling a lie; and he has refused to tell it.

I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

I do not think I was a hothead—not then and not now. I thought I was right. I had read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bible. Segregation seemed evil from the time I was a boy. Slavery is an abomination on the American soul, ineradicable stain on our body politic. But Penn Center lit a fire that has never gone out, and the election of President Barack Obama was one of the happiest days of my life.

In the fantasy of the races conceived in my mind, all blacks were noble people who had struggled against a repressive social order for years and who were finally reaping the tangible rewards of this struggle. All whites, especially myself, were guilty of heinous, extraordinarily brutal crimes against humanity.

I'm a hero hunter. I hunt heroes. Haven't found any yet. - Marshal Law

They say I don't pray for my enemy. I do. I pray they go to hell. - Marshal Law

A convicted thief was sentenced to have his hand cut off. A liar lost his tongue. Repeated offenders were killed. Banishment was also a common sentence. In spite of these severe laws, songs praised Sundiata for his fairness in dealings with the privileged as well as the poor, the strong as well as the weak.

The people of Mali] are seldom unjust, and have a greater horror of injustices than other people. Their sultan shows no mercy to anyone who is guilty of the least act of it. There is complete security in their country. Neither traveller nor inhabitant in it has anything to fear from robbers or men of violence. —Ibn Battuta, fourteenth-century traveler

He even got an old moral lesson hammered home anew: the poor go to gaol for the same crimes with which the rich aren't even charged.

we must let the Lord punish the wrongdoer. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.

We just have to find out what he's guilty of.

Society's law was lax compared to the law of conscience

The law was not society, it began. Society was people like himself and Owen and Brillhart, who hadn't the right to take the life of another member of society. And yet the law did. And yet the law is supposed to be the will of society at least. It isn't even that. Or maybe it is collectively, he added, aware that as always he was doubling back before he come to a point, making things as complex as possible in trying to make them certain.

Did the world always mete out just deserts?

I appreciate your sentiments but I do not waste my time punching people in the nose. If I really don't like somebody, I kill him. – Victor Van Allen

Por acaso a vida distribuía apenas os quinhões merecidos?

the best thing that can happen to anyone who is doing wrong is to be found out. If he is not found out he will do more wrong and earn a heavier punishment.

Aici zace corpul Iui William Jai. El muri ap?rându-ÅŸi cu ardoare opiniile. El avea dreptate, toat? viaÅ£a a avut dreptate. Dar nu a murit mai puÅ£in. Decât dac? nu ar fi avut

Yacen aquí los despojos de un pobre viajero. Murió defendiendo su derecho de paso: Razón le sobraba, estaba en lo justo, lo cierto. Mas tan muerto está como si hubiera errado.