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Quotes About Justice

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.
~ Orson Scott Card
Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.
~ Randy Alcorn
Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.
~ Richard Belzer
Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.
~ Richelle Mead
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
~ Saint Augustine
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
~ Samuel Richardson
The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.
~ Shane Claiborne
Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
~ Sheri Holman
No good deed goes unpunished- Syn
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.
~ Thomas de Maiziere
Be good or don't get caught.
~ Traci Lords
A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
~ Walter Scott
Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.
~ Warren Buffett
I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.
~ William Gibson
A good leader must be fair.
~ Yao Ming
Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.
~ Zach Braff
I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon
~ Sophocles, Antigone
Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.
~ Joyce Rachelle
If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.
~ Nelson Mandela
Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.
~ Ibn Khaldun
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
~ Alexander Hamilton
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
~ James Monroe