Quotes About Justice

And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

It's not human. It's not primal. So we don't understand it. It's a more recent mutation. The things we all have, love and hate and passion, and the need to eat and yell and screw, these are things every human has. But there's this new mutation, this ability to stand between a human being and some small measure of justice and blame it on some regulation. To say that the form was filled out incorrectly.

He did a terrible thing and eliminating him would have left the world tidier. Or so goes the logic of the last fifty years of American justice. We throw away flawed people, people who have made terrible mistakes, with regularity and great alacrity. We jail drug dealers for decades, and we execute killers. We want them away. Out of sight.

Next to the photo was a frown button that said "We denounce the Central Guatemalan Security Forces." Mae hesitated briefly, knowing the gravity of what she was about to do—to come out against these rapists and murderers—but she needed to make a stand. She pushed the button.

But if the customer knows that five dollars is the actual price that cup of coffee should be—the correct price to ensure that everyone involved in bringing that cup of coffee into existence is being treated humanely and given a chance to live with dignity—would that customer balk or step up?

It's no coincidence that social justice warriors are frequently out of shape, poorly dressed, and have messy hair, along with their overall disheveled appearance. If some dress for success, they dress for failure. Now get out there and buy yourself something nice. Your future deserves it.

From Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence to Abraham Lincoln's ending of slavery, it's pasty white dudes who've enshrined your ability to hate them.

You're not gonna believe this, but generally speaking, good guys follow rules while bad guys don't.

Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

no one can do an injury to you without doing an injury to themselves.

Justice. It wasn't about the greater good. It was about what was right and wrong on an individual basis. Person by person. Because if you neglected the people, the idea of a greater good was a pipe dream created by those whose idea of the "greater good" almost always tended to favor themselves and people like them.

His jumpsuit was white, and on the back were the letters D and R printed in black. They stood for "death row". Mars had equated it to a snake's rattle, warning folks to stay the hell away.

Maybe I shot the sheriff and the deputy.

Montgomery said, "I thought there were, like, laws against that kind of stuff?" "But if you have enough money, the laws don't apply to you

I don't believe in ghosts or magic." "I don't either, Mary. But I do know one thing." "What's that?" "That this guy is not going to get away.

Meaning evil only wins—" "—when good men and women do nothing.

Important man, they say. Lot of important men in this world. But they die just like the rest of us. God's way of making life fair.

In the legal arena, she could go anywhere. The trouble

It now costs about thirteen million dollars per prisoner.

civil liberties

David Baldacci

Was revenge always wrong? Was righting an injustice outside the law never condonable?

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." — J. R. R. Tolkien

David Baldacci