Quotes About Justice

people were to be sentenced not for what they had done, but for who they were.

Anne Applebaum

J'accuse," published in 1898, Emile Zola

HE HAS TEETH. SHE HAS A GUN. THEY ARE THE LAW.

Sometimes doing the right thing isn't the right thing to do."   "Here

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

But no generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement—

But when justice is done the world drops away.

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

Tragedy is not concerned with human justice. Tragedy is the statement of an expiation, but not he miserable expiation of a codified breach of a local arrangement organized by the knaves for the fools. The tragic figure represents the expiation of the original sin, of the original and eternal sin of...having been born.

You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them.

It was all very nice as a feeling, but love was no use, at the end of the day, to man or beast, when there was no fucking justice in the world.

Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this story was told, everyone around the dinner table concurred that justice had been served.

President Putin has said courts may now mandate treatment for addicts

Not a bit. I don't hold with all that 'sins of the father' nonsense.

Jesus, the Son of God, "did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 JOHN 1:9

Run to God and cling to Him. God understands every verbal barb, every covert injustice, every emotional shard, every leering look, every jeering smirk. But He also keeps the books, and one day He will make everything right.

The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him. EZEKIEL 18:20

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow than use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.

The strange boy looked astonished. "Why don't you fight then?" He asked crossly. "Because if I hit you back, I'd be no better than you are. I'd be just as rotten and worthless and I'd have no right to be free!