Quotes About Justice

through the centuries men have formed concepts designed to check and limit the exercise of State rule; and, one after another, the State, using its intellectual allies, has been able to transform these concepts into intellectual rubber stamps of legitimacy and virtue to attach to its decrees and actions.

For the evangelical left, every Facebook update can be a personal march on Selma.

We had two dead white girls in a city that was six-sevenths black.

You know what you should have done, added Luker, you should have ripped his balls off and stapled them to the back of his throat.

Man was not born to a world of justice. But he can create such a world!

experience convinces me that no permanent good can come out of untruth and violence.

Grief is half of justice," she said, and added, a moment later, "the other half is a hope.

Grief is half of justice," she said, and added, a moment later, "the other half is hope.

I'd observed that repeat offenders were the easiest to deal with, treating their lawyers with something akin to professional courtesy. All they wanted was a deal. It was only the first timers who bothered to tell you they were innocent.

If the law was a temple, it was built on human misery and jails were the cornerstones.

If the execution of a million or more sentient beings, the destruction of a dozen planetary communities, isn't enough—if the members of the Council need a living victim paraded in front of them to move them to act—then shame on them. And shame on us.

T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers.

Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. —Rom. 12:19

Michael Punke

Why did you come to the frontier? [...] To track down a common thief? To revel in a moment's revenge? I thought there was more to you than that." Still Glass said nothing. Finally Kiowa said, "If you want to die in the guardhouse, that's for you to decide.

but we know enough from the early years to see that the machinery of the law was mostly used against workers who wanted more money than employers wanted to pay. This is not surprising; if someone's offence was refusing work there was nothing to discuss. They were judged on the spot and punished until they agreed to do what was wanted. There was no need to go to the kind of court that keeps records.

As it sometimes happened, the good suffered for the faults of the bad.

Close your eyes & imagine a world full of self-replicating little Stalins. Now open your eyes. You live in that world. It's called social justice & the little Stalins are SJWs. SJW = Stalin, Just Weirder.

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know what crimes have been committed. - The Man in the Iron Mask (155)

I've discovered the secret of revenge. Outlive the f---ers! I'll dance on their graves.

Fleetingly, unnervingly, I understand what he's saying but cannot accept a world that is so brutally black and white. Murder, rape and torture are the apparatus of terrorists, not of civilized societies. If we become like them, what hope do we have?

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.' And another time, 'The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.

Justice and fairness are like rain that falls more heavily on some people than others. People with umbrellas tend to stay dry. People on high ground avoid the flood. Rich people. Connected people.