Quotes About Justice

even the gods suffered when injustice unbalanced the flow of all existence. It was the gods' will that the balance must be restored...Let the gods bear witness then, he would become the instrument of their will. No matter what laws of men he had to defy

Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge.

There were some things even the rules of an absolute human overlord had no right to deny, and one of them was justice

So sue me in the courts of Athens!

But doesn't fairness also mean not showing favoritism to one group over another? [fave quote from page 128]

Poverty doesn't make anyone an inferior being.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

You sure you don't want me to kill him? You know, sometimes you kill just one person and it takes care of everything.

how widespread is the view that a criminal trial is not about determining facts and repairing the breach crime creates in the social fabric but about enlisting state power for the satisfaction of the aggrieved individual.

We can't afford to be cautious. People should have a sense of anger.

The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice and exclusiveness through doing justice to individual artists by allowing their work into the canon, which will thereby be more complete, but fundamentally unchanged.

Kind of like Batman. On a motorcycle.

Never point a gun unless you're ready to end a life. -Horse

The Arkansas House deserves special mention. In 1837, when a representative insulted the Speaker during debate, the Speaker stepped down from his platform, bowie knife in hand, and killed him. Expelled and tried for murder, he was acquitted for excusable homicide and reelected, only to pull his knife on another legislator during debate, though this time the sound of colleagues cocking pistols stopped him cold.

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?

I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice [...] and I never promised you peace or happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of those things. The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!

What will has caused, will must be brought to correct.

I have to know the hill on which I'm willing to die," she told the group. "The equality of the sexes is that hill for me.

There isn't ever going to be an end," she said. "The point is that people have to continue always speaking up and not being afraid.

Had the reckoning gone too far, with innocent men tarnished with less-than-convincing proof, or not far enough, with a frustrating lack of systemic change?

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?