Quotes About Justice

Now, if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable.

I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives but that progress in the law may never be made at the price of morally guilty lives.

But none of these men before you acted in minor parts. Each of them was entrusted with broad discretion and exercised great power. Their responsibility is correspondingly great and may not be shifted to that fictional being, "the State", which cannot be produced for trial, cannot testify, and cannot be sentenced.

La ley es tan cara! -comentó Clodio con una sonrisa-. El pobre Catilina ha tenido que vender las reliquias de la familia para poder estar seguro de la justicia. Realmente, es un escándalo. No sé cómo se las arregla la gente.

The trouble with Lucious, he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone, is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

The trouble with Lucius," he said, putting his feet up on the desk after his cousin had gone, "is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong. - Cardinal Vincent Benitez

What do you do,' he said, 'if you devote your life to discovering criminals, and it gradually occurs to you that the real criminals are the people you work for?

Cosa si può fare, disse, se si dedica la vita a smascherare i criminali, e a poco a poco ci si accorge che i veri criminali sono quelli per cui si lavora? Cosa si può fare quando tutti ti dicono di non preoccuparti perché tanto non ci puoi fare niente ed è successo molto tempo fa? Adesso Charlie lo guardava in un modo diverso. Immagino che si perda la ragione. Oppure può succedere di peggio. La si può trovare.

Always very pious, these crooked accountants,' observed Cicero.)

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us. Reclaim now, now renew the vision of a human world where godliness is possible and man is neither gook nigger honkey wop nor kike but man permitted to be man.

Law, lastly, stands between politics and morality.

the difference between how a person treats the powerless versus the powerful is as good a measure of human character as I know.

Everyone deserves to be treated fairly. If leaders are the problem, we ask those being served by leaders to let them know or go up the chain of command—without the threat of retaliation." "Store

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

They will pay. I am the Lord of the Morning

Elayne, she said softly as they resumed their climb, if we are caught, I swear that before they kill us, or do whatever they do, I will beg them on bended knees to let me stripe you from top to bottom with the stoutest switch I can find!

The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.

It is all right to hate them, Egwene. It is. They deserve it. But it isn't all right to let them make you like they are.

It's one of the things men are for, taking the blame. They usually deserve it, even if you don't know exactly how.

Is it betrayal to betray a traitor?

As far as he was concerned, a man who decided to rob and kill deserved what he got when he lost the game. He did not dwell on them, but neither did he jerk his eyes away if they fell on one of the robbers.

The determination of a man set upon justice is a thing not lightly ignored.