Quotes About Justice

It's a hard world. No one gets what they deserve.

Brand stared in sick disbelief. He'd been sure among all those lads someone would speak, for they were honest enough. Or Hunnan would tell his part in it, for he was a respected master-at-arms. The king or the queen would draw out the truth, for they were wise and righteous. The gods wouldn't allow such an injustice to pass. Someone would do something. Maybe, like him, they were all waiting for someone else to put things right.

I am First of the Magi. I am the last authority and I say . . . I am righteous.' 'You? No.' 'Yes, Ferro. Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.

Why give them a proper burning?" Rulf caught the lad by the arm. "Because if we beat beggars here, we're no better than beggars. If we beat great men, we're greater still.

Vengeance is a fleeting thrill. The doubts, we carry to our graves.

There's always good men on both sides of a good fight.

Perhaps the vengeance could wait, at least until he had a bigger blade to work with. You have to be realistic, after all.

Sometimes Wile wondered whether a cause could be right that needed folk burned, cut and otherwise mutilated.

Taking vengeance... it might not answer no questions. It sure won't make the world a fairer place or the sun shine warmer. But it's better'n not taking it. It's a damn stretch better.

Life being what is is, one dreams of revenge.

Revenge. I swear, is there a more pointless, destructive, unsatisfying motive in all the world?

it was strange how circumstances would rarely let one be the hero, however much one might want to be. However much one might deserve to be.

Probably been sure he'd got the right god, the right king, the right cause. Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

Better to rob the righteous,' muttered Shev as she slipped the oars silently through the rowlocks. 'Evil people tend to be suspicious and vengeful.' Javre

Your Majesty, we are not here to set right all the world's wrongs.' Orso stared back at him. 'What are we here for, then?' Bayaz neither smiled nor frowned. 'To ensure that we benefit from them.

And he wasn't without sympathy for their cause, up to a point. Freedom and justice and so on, who doesn't like that stuff, in principle?

There is a time for wondering what a man wants, and there is a time for splitting his head. This is that second time.

Que sea el monstruo el que pronuncie la sentencia de muerte para que así los demás podamos seguir pensando que somos gente inocente

Sometimes great rights must be stitched from little wrongs.

But being right is of little value in war.

Vengeance is just an empty chest you choose to carry.

Szörnyen vékony a határvonal aközött, ha valakit vezérként emelnek a magasba, meg aközött, ha akasztott emberként kerül a többiek fölé.

Every hero is someone's villain

Revenge is a dish best served cold' Pierre Choderlos de Laclos