Quotes About Justice

A cold sentiment deserved a frigid end.

the Son's, love is greater than the sum of the world's sin and how the Father cannot resist this love and lets love reign at the judgment in place of ordinary justice.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Pour everything out for the blood you have shed, you're wasting your time in appeasing the dead.

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

Bastions of wealth are no deference for the man who treads the grand altar of Justice down and out of sight.

By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.

For many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

CLYTEMNESTRA What ails thee, raising this ado for us? SLAVE I say the dead are come to slay the living.

Death is a softer thing by far than tyranny.

Give me an answer which is plain to understand.

But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from justice.

A curse burns bright on crime.

I shall select judges of manslaughter, and swear them in, establish a court into all time to come. 485 Litigants, call your witnesses, have ready your proofs as evidence under bond to keep this case secure. I will pick the finest of my citizens, and come back. They shall swear to make no judgment that is not just, and make clear where in this action the truth lies.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right.

I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering

ESORAIS M' HOS EKDIKA PASKHO!

But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.

Neither anarchy, nor tyranny, my people. Worship the Mean, I urge you, shore it up with reverence and never banish terror from the gates, not outright.

May good prevail, and justify my deed.

If libations were proper to pour above the slain, this man deserved, more than deserved, such sacrament. He filled our cup with evil things unspeakable and now himself come home has drunk it to the dregs.

Furono saggi i nostri padri, facendo questa legge: che chi avesse le mani insanguinate non potesse farsi vedere né avere contatto con nessuno; e l'espiazione fosse l'esilio, non la morte. Ché, se no, ci sarebbe sempre stato uno implicato nel sangue: quello con l'ultima sozzura sulle mani.