Quotes About Justice

And what kind of liberty were they fighting for anyway? How much liberty and whose idea of liberty? Were they fighting for the liberty of eating free ice cream cones all their lives or for the liberty of robbing anybody they pleased whenever they wanted to or what? You tell a man he can't rob and you take away some of his liberty. You've got to. What the hell does liberty mean anyhow?

The war was to make the world safe for democracy for the little countries for everybody. If the war was over now then the world must be all safe for democracy. Was it? And what kind of democracy? And how much? And whose?

A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it?

Pay no attention when they tap you on the shoulder and say come along we've got to fight for liberty or whatever their word is there's always a word.

whether all these things people talk about are worth dying for

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.

What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he is talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it?

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

And I just keep going day after day, year after year. Waiting for the patriarchy to die, and through my work, killing it.

Most of the people on Death Row are here for no other reason than that their case got more publicity than others. The difference between a man receiving a prison sentence and a man receiving a death sentence could be decided by nothing more than a slow news day.

To be honest and to be fair were not always the same thing.

One life, Harlon. I learned many things from Eisenhorn, but ruthlessness was not one of them. Thousands may die, millions even, unless Molotch is found and brought to justice. But any count of a million starts with one, and to ignore one life when there is still l a chance of saving it, well, one might as well give up on the other nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine as well." - Gideon Ravenor

The end justifies the means?" He raised his eyebrows and laughed. "Now that's different. That kind of thinking gets a man into trouble. There are some means that no end will ever justify. But fighting dirty, occasionally, is no bad thing. Neither's breaking the rules. Provided you remember one thing." "Which is?" "You have to understand the rules in the first place if you're going to break them.

We are mighty because we are right, Garviel. We are not right because we are mighty. Vile the hour when that reversal becomes our credo.

Death does not discriminate. It is so even handed, so scrupulously fair, that it seems not fair at all. - Eeron Kleve, Iron Hand's Captain

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, But I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

If the cause is worthy the cost is irrelevant!

Our business is not enemy making but enemy loving. Our business is not dividing the country into blue and red states, but being a people of one accord. Our business is not securing the power to rule, but doing justice, showing mercy, and walking humbly with our God.

There is an immutable law that wherever cops congregate, more cops must join in.

To see what must be done and not to do it, is a crime.

Now personally I stand for the National Anthem. But that a man refusing to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner is a greater affront to your sense of American honor than a stacked roster of flag-waving hypocrites using Old Glory as a symbolic excuse to commit untold atrocities at home and abroad is probably a good sign that you've lost all reference.

When organized religion organizes around the things Jesus would be pleased with, amazing things can happen.

Life isn't always fair. Learn to deal with it. You can't just go around hurting people every time you get angry. You need to consider how your actions affect others. Don't see threats where they don't exist. You need to know that controlling your anger does not make you a sissy.

Why did Iwanski risk so much to save Jews? He told the author, "When a Jew cries, I cry. When a Jew suffers, I am a Jew. All are of my nation, for I am a man.