Quotes About Justice

Nobody talked as much as Kiki did about the possibility of fairness.

Talk of witch-hunts conceals an inconvenient fact: men charged with rape stand a better chance of walking free than other defendants. The conviction rate in rape trials – 63 per cent in 2012/13 – is quite a lot lower. Prosecutors are taking a bigger risk when they bring rape cases to court, especially when the alleged offences happened decades ago, leaving no forensic evidence. The Independent, 9 February 2014

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

Crooks could buy guns immediately through illegal means, but honest citizens had to wait and hope that they'd still be alive at the end of the waiting period.

But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair. I never did, snapped Loki crossly. Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?

They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer.

We do not— interpret —God's laws to suit ourselves. Or the laws of our country

Non permettete a nessuno di dirvi che la vendetta non è dolce: lo è. Lo so.

Before Ryan's murder, she'd trusted the criminal justice system wholeheartedly. But that was before she'd almost lost everything she cherished. She couldn't face another attack on her integrity and professionalism without imperiling the fragile sanity she clung to like a life preserver

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray.

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Dylan Jerome, the lawyer admits, wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?