Quotes About Justice

So, the book is not 'anti-religion.' It is against the use of religion as a front for tyranny; which is a different thing altogether.

It was the feet they'd do, for a first offense. They used steel cables, frayed at the ends. After

The penalty for rape, as you know, is death. Deuteronomy 22:23–29. I

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

Avenging a toad. Pointing at a tree. Who could handle that kind of thing, in a mother?

La grandeza está en la virtud, no en la venganza

His generation believed that if there was trouble all you'd have to do was shoot someone and then it would be okay.

the young are idealistic, have an underdeveloped sense of their own mortality, and are afflicted with an exaggerated thirst for justice.

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

What was the guilty thing?" says Anne-Marie. "What's Prospero done that's so terrible?" "Indeed, what?" Felix asks rhetorically. More of the cast have gathered around. "He doesn't tell us. It's one more puzzle in the play. But The Tempest is a play about a man producing a play—one that's come out of his own head, his 'fancies'—so maybe the fault for which he needs to be pardoned is the play itself.

But all would come out fine in the end, she added, because the gods were just. I refrained from saying I'd seen scant evidence of that so far.

Fifteen years in prison! That's eternity for an Arapaho.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

She'd make them sorry. She'd show them. She didn't quite see how she'd show them, but she'd do it all the same. She'd hurt them worse than they hurt her.

A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die.

He's evil, and the only thing that stops evil is death.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

The time is always right to do what is right.