Quotes About Justice

God shattered the inexorable law of sin and retribution by invading earth, absorbing the worst we had to offer, crucifixion, and then fashioning from that cruel deed the remedy for the human condition. Calvary broke up the logjam between justice and forgiveness. By accepting onto his innocent self all the severe demands of justice, Jesus broke forever the chain of ungrace.

When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

I won't forgive this wrong done to me and my house, whoever it was that killed my boys, I shall put a curse on their house that they will have no first born son to inherit. Whoever took my son will lose his son. He will spend his life longing for an heir. He will bury his first born and long for him, for I cannot even bury mine.

This is the man they call a great king, the greatest king that we have ever had in England. Does it not teach us that we should have no king? That a people should be free? That a tyrant is still a tyrant even when he has a handsome face under a crown?

Does the difference matter? someone else asked. Does it matter whether the law seeks to protect you because you are an individual or because of the group of which you happen to be a member? That question floated around the room, and it has remained with me ever since.

poet Józef Wittlin inquired in 1946.

I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, This is not right. —Claudette Colvin

contentment, which is the last victory of justice

lie don't seem a lie anymore when it's meant to save a dog, and right and wrong's all mixed up in my head.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

La giustizia è un robot senza cuore nè intelligenza: colpisce a seconda della carica che ha avuto. E la carica è costituita dalle prove.

Non era stato lui lo sconfitto, ma la giustizia: quella umana almeno, perchè in quella divina credeva e sperava fermamente. E lo disse al giudice: Vedrà,signor giudice! Quello che non ha potuto fare la legge, lo farà un'altra mano!

C'est la pratique de la torture qui permet de distinguer à coup sûr l'homme de l'animal.

And the worst of it was, Irene could not claim with any certainty that this savage retribution was wrong. She had always thought other people would and should suffer for their callousness, but had never realized that she was as guilty as they and deserved similar treatment.

Ânito e Meleto podem matar-me, mas não me podem fazer mal. Platão, Apologia de Sócrates (30 C-D)

Yo declaro que la justicia no es otra cosa que la conveniencia del más fuerte.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

it's better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.

The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man.

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.