Quotes About Justice

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. (The Flying Girl, 1911)

You were the one they used against us, Bruce. The one who played it rough. When the noise started from the parents' groups and the sub-committee called us for questioning... you were the one who laughed... that scary laugh of yours. Sure, we're criminals, you said. We've always been criminals. We have to be criminals.--Kal-El aka Clark Kent aka Superman

The girls all know the score. No escape. No surrender. No mercy. We got to kill every last rat bastard one of them, every last one. Not for revenge. Not because they deserve it. not because it'll make the world a better place. We need a heap of bloody bodies so when the mob boss, Wallenquist, looks over his charts of profits and losses, he'll see what it cost him to mess with the girls of Old Town.

You don't get it son. This isn't a mudhole, it's an operating table and I am the surgeon. -Batman

I can tell you squat about Islamism. But I know a lot about Al-Qaeda and they need to burn in hell.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Wait till you see-at the same time that your family is dying for lack of bread-a hundred thousand acres of wheat-millions of bushels of food-grabbed and gobbled by the Railroad Trust, and then talk of moderation. That talk is just what the Trust wants to hear. It ain't frightened of that. There's one thing only it does listen to, one things it is frightened of-the people with dynamite in their hands,-six inches of plugged gaspipe. That talks.

in my four months of legal cramming I'd learned the law is full of technicalities. Technicalities are what screw up justice. Wilcox

There is no such thing as a clever crook. If he was really that clever he wouldn't be a crook at all.

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

Judgement does not come suddenly; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement.

Many questions were troubling the explorer, but at the sight of the prisoner he asked only: Does he know his sentence? No, said the officer, eager to go on with his exposition, but the explorer interrupted him: He doesn't know the sentence that has been passed on him? No, said the officer again, pausing a moment as if to let the explorer elaborate his question, and then said: There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body.

Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.

It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.

Whatever he may seem to us, he is yet a servant of the Law; that is, he belongs to the Law and as such is set beyond human judgment.

He accepted it as a fundamental principle for an accused man to be always forearmed, never to let himself be caught napping, never to let his eyes stray unthinkingly to the right when his judge was looming up on the left--to the right when his judge was looming up on the left--and against that very principle he kept offending again and again.

Where was the judge he'd never seen? Where was the high court he had never reached?

Justice has to be motionless or else the scales will waver that and there is no possibility of a correct judgement

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.

Das Gericht will nichts von Dir. Es nimmt Dich auf wenn Du kommst und es entläßt Dich wenn du gehst.

The court wants nothing from you. It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.