Quotes About Justice

Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair. Proverbs 1:3

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

Change doesn't happen just because we think something is wrong. Change happens because we think something is wrong and then don't stop fighting until it's right.

Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.

On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity to force him to become his vassal by withholding that relief God requires him to afford to the wants of his brother, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched.

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking.

Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen

Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10.

Life is what you make it. Unless some guy finds you with his girl. Then the ball's pretty much in his court.

Any community's arm of force--military, police, security--needs people in it who can do the necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

His heart and his brain were utterly foreign to all vindictiveness or personal bitterness. He declared himself hotly and strongly against wrong causes, but never against men.

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature, -- were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

FRONDOSO: Pero decidme, mi amor, ¿quién mató al comendador? LAURENCIA: Fuenteovejunica, mi bien. FRONDOSO: ¿Quién le mató? LAURENCIA: Dasme espanto. Pues, Fuenteovejuna fue. FRONDOSO: Y yo, ¿con qué te maté? LAURENCIA: ¿Con qué? Con quererte tanto.

Cuando se alteran los pueblos agraviados y resuelven, nunca sin sangre o sin venganza vuelven.

I don't know about you, but I say we shoot the fuckers, bury the bodies and deny they were ever here." - Mordecai

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.