Quotes About Justice

Indeed, it seems to me that the more Christian a country is the less likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral….

The urge for retribution, therefore, seems to depend upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior. Despite

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

You're never wrong to do the right thing

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

I have found the world kinder than I expected, but less just.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Better to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us never think about us as much as we think about them, and that is the ultimate irony: their deeds live inside us, festering, while they live out in the world, plucking peaches off trees, biting juicily into them, their minds on things lovely and sweet.

Why should the guiltless tremble so, when the guilty can possess their minds in peace?

Wicked people, I believe, my dear, are the severest punishers of those wicked people, who administer not to their own particular gratifications. Can mercy be expected from such? Mercy is a virtue.

No man, Mr. Reeves, would be more ready than myself to ask pardon, even of my inferior, had I done a wrong thing: But never should a prince make me stoop to disavow a right one.

Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.

A man might not like it, but men had so many advantages that it didn't matter if occasionally they had to do stuff they didn't think was really fair.

Nobody speaks smut to my wife and gets away with it.

The bullies who instilled that hatred were never made to account. I think they should. I think they should because he died that day, too.

he's indicted, his lawyer will cause delay after delay, and five years from now we'll

Hoot, the odds are good that we're going to locate bones, and that'll be all that's left of those ladies who had futures, dreams, and people who loved them. Now, can you look at the faces in those pictures and still whine about a little bad weather? Hmm?

And before you go labeling me an aggressive feminist, let me set you straight on that. I love being a woman. I wouldn't want to be anything else. But I want to be treated fairly and equally....

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

to never again be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Who would have believed that Israeli soldiers would kill hundreds of children and that the majority of Israelis would remain silent?