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Quotes About Justice

He is not an agent of justice, for there can be little or no real justice in this broken world, where culture and politics are forever redefining the word. Instead, he is an agent of truth, which can't be endlessly redefined, which simply is, though often difficult to uncover. His task is to bring the truth to those who live by lies and deception, and deliver unto them the rightful consequences of their deceit.
~ Dean Koontz
what is right is not always clean, and does not always feel good. In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but that is not a bad thing. If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.
~ Dean Koontz
When you're trying to figure out who…you've got to keep in mind the roots of violence.
~ Dean Koontz
There's no middle ground in modern movies; you either save a kingdom and marry a princess or you are shot to death by assassins hired by the evil corporation that you are trying to bring to justice in the courtroom of a corrupt judge.
~ Dean Koontz
The wisdom of the most sagacious ancient Greeks, the wisdom of the most perceptive rabbis of ancient Canaan, and all the parables of Christ teach us to believe not in justice, but in truth. In a world of rampant lying, where so many lies are used to inflame passions and justify false grievances, the indiscriminate pursuit of justice leads sooner or later to insanity, mass murder, and the ruin of entire civilizations.
~ Dean Koontz
Action. Action, shaped by intelligence and a moral perspective, is the answer to most problems.
~ Dean Koontz
To do something, to do what you feel sure is right and in the aid of justice, you sometimes have to do things that, when recalled on lonely nights, make you wonder if in fact you are the good man that you like to believe you are. Such doubts are high cards in the devil's hand, and he knows how to play them well, in hope of bringing you to despair and ennui, if not to self-destruction.
~ Dean Koontz
Listen, did any of those girls feel less pain because Salsbury's evil isn't entirely his own doing? I'm an old-style liberal when it comes to most things. But this liberal line about compassion for the criminal—that's ninety percent horseshit. You
~ Dean Koontz
Dad had been dead for three years, and no one had been put in prison for murder. Everyone still thought his death had been an accident. Woody knew better. Now that he had at last finished "The Son's Revenge: Faithfully Compiled Evidence of Monstrous Evil," those individuals responsible would be brought to justice.
~ Dean Koontz
Even bad guys," Roy said patiently, "deserve compassion. This man has suffered. You can see that. I need to get my hands on him, yes, and be sure that society's safe from him—but he still deserves to be treated with compassion, with as much mercy as possible.
~ Dean Koontz
Mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.
~ Dean Koontz
Criminals are as absurd as they are evil.
~ Dean Koontz
Judge Sheila Draper-Cruxton.
~ Dean Koontz
Sheriff Hayden Eckman
~ Dean Koontz
I want them dead.
~ Dean Koontz
mercilessly by the judge who dismisses the charges as "utterly without merit, based on manufactured evidence
~ Dean Koontz
Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.
~ Dean Koontz
Not every case requires him to kill, but when he does, he kills known murderers whom the law will not touch or the courts acquit for one reason or another. Even though he is supported by a formidable organization with deep resources, which remains a mystery to him, his fingerprints have been removed to protect him. It's better to leave no prints behind.
~ Dean Koontz
from an age of hope, when honor and a sense that right would always win suffused the land.
~ Dean Koontz
when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust wore the same face.
~ Dean Koontz
jury of the ignorant and a judge with issues would award millions to the trespasser.
~ Dean Koontz
The angry man shoots too often from the hip and misses his target or hits the wrong one, while a wrathful man proceeds without malice but with a thirst for justice.
~ Dean Koontz
There's not the slightest blemish on his reputation. He's an enlightened progressive lawman
~ Dean Koontz
When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw.
~ Dean Koontz