Quotes About Justice

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

The malediction is upon him even if the law does not exact it.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

Les hommes se plaignent des centaines de fois devant Dieu de leur souffrance, de leur blessure, de leur douleur. Mais ils ne savent pas que c'est la souffrance et la douleur qui les rendirent bons et justes. Ils ne savent pas d'avantage que c'est la grâce et la faveur qui les éloignèrent de Créateur, qui les exclurent de son entourage.

There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she'd be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now. See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.

It was a white-collar crime." Illium gave her an odd look. "In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

Every white knight needed a deadly black sword at his back.

Your Karma is of your own making.

Blood for life. Life for life. Changeling justice.

Those who say vengeance eats you up are wrong—it doesn't, not if you do it right.

Our laws might seem harsh but we're not inhuman. We treasure every unique individual. We make room for difference.

Elena notched a bolt into her crossbow. "Let's go kill that murderous bitch.

Life had been hard on him, but he was still moving, and he was still working, and he was still fighting for those who couldn't fight for themselves.

Perhaps the storm will do the world a favor and burn Lijuan from existence.

I don't want any more murdered women in my family, Raphael." It came out a painful rasp. "I've had enough.

Remember that there are those in this world who will cross every line and feel no guilt in doing so.

I want to mutilate and torture every person on the planet who in any way supported Santano or Tatiana, break them until they beg and crawl. Then I want to tell them it'll never end.

Your father will wake at reckless speed to avenge you.

Blood fountained in an arterial spray that wet her face, turned the cherry blossoms black, but she was already shoving the blade into his heart and twisting it into so much pulp ... 'Will she be able to make him rise from this?' she asked Raphael, her voice without inflection, without mercy. Slater didn't deserve her emotions, didn't deserve anything but the cold hand of a long-delayed justice.

I will personally nail his nuts to the floor before slicing him to ribbons.

We are not asking for superiority for we have always had that; all we ask is equality.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. —Christopher Dawson, The Judgment of Nations (1942)