Quotes About Justice

Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like, he said, but God made hope.

Anybody messes with the girls, we'll take care of him right smart," the elder Wurm assured Ian. "It's not that hard," the other said honestly. "Break just one of them bastards' noses with a hoe handle and the rest of 'em settle right down.

If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense.

He said the truth is the truth, and people should take responsibility for their own actions, which is right.

The thing was, some men needed killing. The Church didn't admit that, save it was war. The Mohawk understood it fine. So did Uncle Jamie.

Fraser nodded casually toward Twelvetrees. "Is there anything ye want me to beat out of him?

My father wasna always gentle, but he was usually fair," Jamie said imperturbably. "He said the truth is the truth, and people should take responsibility for their own actions, which is right.

Still, when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial? Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?

met with you." "Captain Randall said you were stealing cattle

The world is chaos and death and destruction. But people like you—you don't stand for that. If there is any order in the world, any peace—it's because of you, John, and those very few like you.

The sins of the fathers," I murmured to myself. "The sins of the fathers shall not be visited upon the children.

Without one word of direct explanation or apology, he had given me the message he intended. I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy, too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.

Je ne suis que le laird, pas Dieu. Mais la frontière est parfois ténue entre la justice et la barbarie. J'espère simplement que je suis du bon côté. Je

I don't hold wi' rape, and we've not the time for it, anyway." I was pleased to hear this statement of policy

Wengeful," she said. "Wery wengeful, 'e is. But oo'd blame him?" Oo, indeed? (A Fugitive Green)

So I reached down into my workbasket, took my wee knife from its sheath, and went for his balls

I bring ye your vengeance, lady," he said, as quietly as I'd ever heard him speak. He straightened and inclined his head in turn to Mary and Mrs. Munro. "And justice for the wrong done to ye.

But there—poor men mun bleed for the rich man's gold, and always will, eh?

the truth is the truth, and people should take responsibility for their own actions

Adaletle zorbal?k aras?nda çok ince bir çizgi var.

So you don't think the sins of the fathers should be visited upon the children?" Grey sighed, pressing his shoulders against the chair to ease the stiffness in his back. "If they were, I should think humanity would have ceased to exist by now, pressed back into the earth by the accumulated weight of inherited evil.

I suppose men can make all the laws they like," he said, "but God made hope.

If life was fair, then what?

Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like," he said, "but God made hope.