Quotes About Justice

Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Scottoline

How can I help change things if I sit by and do nothing?

A monument will never change how she feels. It's unfair that victims should have to forgive those who raped, tortured, and killed, or burned villages to the ground. On an Island of World Peace, shouldn't those who inflicted terrible harm on others be forced to confess and atone, and not make widows and mothers pay for stone monuments?

Store up good deeds and you will meet with good. Store up evil actions and you will meet with evil.

What is the difference between justice and revenge? he asked. ... Revenge seeks chaos, he said. Justice seeks balance. That's the difference.

Eloise thought that justice was a funny thing. It was a big idea, a romantic one. It was imagined like a satisfying end to a story.

People like this guy—they count on you shrinking into the shadows, letting your shame keep you silent. That's how they get away with it again and again.

The world was not a fair place and nothing—not looks, not wealth, not love—was evenly distributed. He knew that, of course he did. Why did it never stop hurting?

Somehow I escaped punishment in that life, and so now, lifetimes later, a very special kind of hell is being rained down on me, the full rage of karmic justice.

I did, in fact, believe life was fair. Well, not fair exactly, but balanced. Yin and yang. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Bitter and sweet. One did not exist without the other. When life is bad, you know it's going to get better. When life is good, you know it's going to go bad. If that's not fair, I don't know what is.

Now we are even.

Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

You can't make people stop loving each other just because a law says it's wrong," I said.

I shall not lie! Eilonwy cried, not for this traitor and deserter. It is not for him, Taran said quietly, but for the sake of our quest. It isn't right, Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes. We do not speak of rightness, Taran answered. We speak of a task to be finished.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, It isn't fair about everything else.

So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you'd better hurry. You wouldn't want your heroism to spoil.

You may have slandered an honest man. Or you may have struck a blow for justice. I don't know. The point is... neither do you.

He who plots revenge must dig two graves.

Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge.

There will be a ten percent surcharge for resisting arrest

Indeed. On average, one-half of all supplicants to come before a judge's bench must depart angry and disappointed. But not, by that, necessarily wronged..

I guess it just doesn't look very heroic to sneak up behind somebody and shoot them in the back. I can't help thinking it would be more efficient, though.