Quotes About Justice

Or if I sued you in civil court, as I still can do, especially with this evidence now, I reckon that given what you did to me, how you destroyed my physical health, threatened my parents, the ensuing mental trauma, the stress, the loss of my own education and a chance for me to earn a more lucrative living, I'd get more than nine hundred K. Plus you'd incur legal costs. And there would be the press. So much press.

He will fucking kill Mia Reiter and the people behind this. He will rip their throats out with his own bare hands.

People don't hire lawyers like Klister when they have nothing to hide. This woman's fee would send average folk into bankruptcy, or at the least force a second mortgage

They do not have to prove innocence, but we do have to prove guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. What we need is a confession. We need a guilty plea. We need irrefutable proof. Something.

Prosecution screwed up. I didn't. Hey, don't look at me like that, it's what I get paid the big bucks for—getting the law right." She reaches for her drink and leans back in her chair. "I'm no arbiter of morals. I just work within the letter of law.

Loreth Anne White

If he's retained Klister the Blister," says Backmann, "my money's on him being guilty as sin. Innocent people don't hire counsel like the Blister.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

The most ignorant young man, who knows nothing of the needs of women, thinks himself a competent legislator, because he is a man," Pankhurst told the crowd, eyeing the Harvard men. "This aristocratic attitude is a mistake.

Mary Woolley wasn't only a suffragist; she was also a feminist. Feminism is not a prejudice, she said, It is a principle.

No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.

Men talk of the Negro problem," he began. "There is no Negro problem," he said, his voice rising. "The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own Constitution."123

Life isn't fair. You know it isn't, said Lucas. I do know that, but it's still not fair that it isn't fair.

Listen, we watch Law and Order. We know shit happens. And shit's happening.

You have the right to remain silent. Otherwise, anything you say might be misquoted and used against you.

I'm not a philosopher, Harry, [Michael] said. But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around. He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. And sometimes you are what's coming around.

Maybe you know the monsters, Martin, Murphy said quietly. But I know the guy who stops them. And if they don't return the girl, we'll make them regret it. She nodded at me and said, Let's go. We can watch Dresden kill the bitch.

The Blue Beetle was not a clown car, I said severely. It was a machine of justice.

You think your power is what shapes the world you walk in. But that is an illusion. Your choices shape your world. You think your power will protect you from the consequences of those choices. But you are wrong. You create your own rewards. There is a Judge. There is Justice in this world. And one day you will receive what you have earned. Choose carefully.

You know the law, Dresden. He who kills the cheer springs for beer, chanted the rest of the table.

It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.

You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order.

The dead don't need justice. That's for those of us who are left looking down at the remains.