Quotes About Justice

The motivating force behind the UNDHR and the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees was a desire to ensure that never again would there be such suffering as that experienced in the wake of the Second World War. Unfortunately that is exactly what is happening now.

Imagine Cara caring enough to make a police report about an abused child knowing the information will likely be unwelcome to the police, enraging to the parent, and unappreciated by the child, knowing nothing might happen, or worse, that the kid may be beaten for the trouble it causes—yet hoping this case is one where the child is actually helped. There's nothing depressing about the heroism teachers show every day.

Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.

Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

All Afterlives Matter

There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few

Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil

There are never any victims of the truth, unless you believe truth to be subjective, then of course, the truth has nothing but victims.

We can't hire gentlemen to serve as policemen," Williams acknowledged, "for $1.25 a day.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

The world is worth fighting for.

Mrs. de Morgan- How can you stand to be near him now that you know he has taken a life? Veronica- Because, Mrs. de Morgan, I have taken two.

People have died for less. I know; I was there.

in such investigations secret. It was enough to know that justice was satisfied by our efforts. Justice—but not always the law. We had little faith in the established systems that governed our island. We had, both of us, fallen afoul of what was strictly legal, and we were thoroughly convinced that justice was the superior aim.

No justice that imperiled the innocent could ever be true, and Beatrice's recklessness spoke volumes as to her rage.

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

Forty years ago, Constance Halliday set us on this road and created her squad of Sphinxes. It hasn't been exactly what any of us expected. But we have done our best, and we will make her proud. She challenged us to make justice our priority, and tomorrow, justice will be done.

I am interested in justice, not the law. There is an unfortunate difference.' " He

She challenged us to make justice our priority, and tomorrow, justice will be done.

You get to thinking that maybe the diving line shouldn't be animals and people but good and bad.

I write because I always want good to win over evil

Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.