Quotes About Justice

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

These extraordinary measures were not about me being treated the same as other people; they were about me being treated worse.

It's unfair to lay all responsibility for the future on the younger generation. After all, the problems they face are partly due to the fact that we, their elders, screwed up. Worse still, it's not true that the young alone are in charge of what comes next. We—young and old together—hold the future in our hands. If our common life is to become more compassionate, creative, and just, it will take an intergenerational effort.

American democracy at its best is like that island of restored prairie. In a world where human diversity is often suppressed—where authoritarian regimes have kept people lined up like rows of cultivated corn, harvesting their labor and sometimes their lives to protect the interests of the state—the diversity that grows in a democracy delights the heart as well as the eye.

I believe in democracy—in its indisputable achievements and its unfulfilled promise. I believe in American political institutions—in the genius inherent in their design and in the undeniable good they have done when put to their best use. I believe in the power of the human heart—in its capacity for truth and justice, love and forgiveness.

A vampire?" MacAullif said. There is no way I can do justice to the skepticism, sarcasm, and mistrust with which MacAullif managed to imbue the word. "That's right." "You want me to find a vampire?" "I'd be relieved if you could. I'm afraid he might be dead.

We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.

Every war, every crime against humanity among the damned of the Earth is supposed to be somewhat our fault and ought to lead us to confess our guilt, to pay endlessly for being a member of the bloc of wealthy nations.

The far Left has never gotten over communism and once again demonstrates that its true passion is not freedom, but slavery in the name of justice.

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

When you examined the facts judicially, and asked which would provide the greatest good for the greatest number, there could be only one answer.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

We prefer freedom with poverty to wealth with tyranny.

Son of a bitch. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was Coyote or the son of Satan. He was a dead man walking.

Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.

There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience

Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

I don't get mad, I get even.

God help us and keep us from receiving what we deserve

We're the good guys. That we're scary doesn't mean we're the villains.

I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.

Jones is dead," I promised. "He just doesn't know it yet. But we are patient, we can wait until the time is ripe.

that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.