Quotes About Justice

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.

My dear Pierre, the affair is clear, you'll have your head chopped off. Let that be a lesson to you!

Pourquoi deux mois de prison au dandy qui, dans une nuit, ôte à un enfant la moitié de sa fortune, et pourquoi le bagne au pauvre diable qui vole un billet de mille francs avec les circonstances aggravantes ? Voilà vos lois. Il

Toplumu, aç?kgöz davran?p herkesin zarar?na kendi mutlulu?unu kurma kuram?yla aç?klamak y?k?c? bir ö?retidir,bunun a??r ç?kar?mlar?, yasaya, insanlara ya da bireye verdi?i zarar? bile belli etmeden, gizlice elde edilen her ?eyin iyi ve uygun biçimde kazan?ld???na inand?r?r insan?.

El sentimiento que el hombre soporta más difícilmente es la compasión, sobre todo cuando la merece. El odio es un tónico, hace vivir, inspira la venganza; pero la compasión mata, debilita aun nuestra flaqueza. Es el mal hecho embelesador, es el desprecio en la ternura o la ternura en la ofensa.

The feeling of pity in others is very difficult for a man to bear, and it is hardest of all when the pity is deserved.

If you're unfortunate enough to lift some trifle or other, you're paraded on the square in front of the law courts like a freak. If you steal a million, you're pointed out in the salons as one of the Virtues. You pay thirty million to the Police and to the Law to maintain those moral standards there. A fine mess!

Live here, in Paris," resumed the First Consul, addressing Bartolomeo; "we will know nothing of this affair. I will cause your property in Corsica to be bought, to give you enough to live on for the present. Later, before long, we will think of you. But, remember, no more vendetta! There are no woods here to fly to. If you play with daggers, you must expect no mercy. Here, the law protects all citizens; and no one is allowed to do justice for himself.

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.

Cuando cruzamos el puente examiné la inscripción de Shigeru me había leído en su día: "El clan Otori da la bienvenida a los justos y los leales. Que los injustos y los desleales sean precavidos". "Los injustos y desleales". Como yo. Desleal a Shigeru, quien me había legado sus tierras; tan injusto como los miembros de la tribu, injusto y cruel.

Nunca he matado a un hombre desarmado y nunca he asesinado por placer.

Anyway, weren't women allowed to be sexist for the next two thousand years or so, until they'd evened up the score?

There was nothing worse than having to feel sorry for people who had wronged you. You don't want lottery wins for your enemies, but you don't want tragedies for them either. Then they got the upper hand. Damn those Delaneys.

Good for you. Never forgive. Never forget. That's my motto.

Never forgive. Never forget. That's my motto.

You don't want lottery wins for your enemies, but you don't want tragedies for them either. Then they got the upper hand.

Anyway, weren't women allowed to be sexist for the next thousand years or so, until they'd evened up the score?

incarceration is not just a space or locale but a logic of state coercion and segregation of difference.

Where moderation is a fault indifference is a crime.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.

Today we grieve, tomorrow we fight.