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Quotes About Justice

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.
~ Susan Sarandon
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.
~ George W. Bush
I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts, both state and federal.
~ George W. Bush
Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.
~ Horace, The Odes of Horace
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
~ Mary Harris Jones
Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
For me, I will live so long as I can, however beaten, however maimed. I will do good to those who love me, and harm to those I hate, so long as my lungs draw breath.
~ Unknown
I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
~ Nancy Reagan
And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was
~ Unknown
What kind of lifehave you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
the conscience of universe itself lies in the path of equality and so is the gods
~ shashidhar sa
My belief that everyone is a person, no matter what they've done, and that taking a human life is wrong.
~ Unknown
They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!
~ Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine
When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
And he goes around killing people?" said Mort. He shook his head. "There's no justice."Death sighed. No, he said... there's just me.
~ Terry Pratchett, Mort
How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?
~ Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy
This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
~ Thomas Browne
THERE IS NO JUSTICE" said Death "JUST ME
~ Terry Pratchett
In wartime, she thought to herself, you don't call a death murder.
~ Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
Yes, I've killed! I've killed as indiscriminately as God! And yes, I will kill again. I must.
~ N.B. Roberts, Halton Cray
Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
~ Unknown
You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipout of our favor?"She had no answer.
~ Kiersten White, And I Darken
It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'
~ Dorothy Parker