Quotes About Justice

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

Thus human courts acquit the strong, And doom the weak, as therefore wrong.

He was reminded again what Abbie Hoffman had said: We must eat what we kill. That would put an end to war.

Each day they tracked down killers. Each day they put their own lives on the line. And in return they were scapegoated. Chained to the ground, food for politicians looking for reelection.

But he'd come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they'd done. Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.

That any decent person would've refused to participate in the Holocaust.

truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

He expected people to play fair. Rules meant order. Without them they'd be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

the police were not the evil ones. The snake was already here.

The senior council couldn't allow me to disobey orders and get away with it. This is their punishment. And it's right. Just as what I did was right.

The trial is about facts, but feelings are also a fact.

A populace he saw not as either victim or threat, but as brothers and sisters. Equals, to be respected and protected. And sometimes arrested.

So who was the fox?" "The cunning one who convinces the others that someone innocent is actually guilty. Blaming the victim.

He knew she was right. But he could also feel his own conscience stirring. Accusing him of following the law, in lockstep. And marching right past common sense. Katie Evans was dead.

If the first victim of war was the truth, some of the first victims of a murder investigation were people's lies.

Almost invariably people expected that if you were a good person you shouldn't meet a bad end, that only the deserving are killed. And certainly only the deserving are murdered.

And good men are very threatening to not good men.

And thought about tyranny, and murder. And whether it was ever right to kill one for the sake of the many.

precision and clarity where the police

If drugs are out of control, it isn't long before we lose our grip on all crime.

It became okay to stop the swaggering, to cease the bullying that was excused as an appropriate way to treat the populace.

Besides, while Gamache wanted very much to solve the crime, he didn't want to lose his soul in the process. He suspected there were enough lost souls already.

He'd once heard a judge say the most humane way to execute a prisoner was to tell him he was free. Then kill him. Gamache had struggled against that, argued against it, railed against it. Then finally, exhausted, had come to believe it.

Yes. Armand Gamache hated guns.