Quotes About Justice

It's wonderful to travel again when the rest of the world does not feel that war criminals are in charge of your country.

The eyes of a vengeful man miss few details he can turn to advantage.

There were parts of Monk she admired greatly: his courage; his strength of will; his intelligence; his loyalty to his beliefs; his passion for justice; his ability to face almost any kind of truth, no matter how dreadful; and the fact that he was never, ever, a hypocrite.

Those who stand by and watch are complicit in what they could have stopped but chose not to.

The time will come when we ourselves are disliked or misunderstood, or strangers, different from our judges in race or class or creed, and if their sense of justice depends upon their passion rather than their morality, who is to speak for us then, or defend our right to the truth?

Nothing at all, except that he is human, and by hanging him we diminish ourselves as well.

She needed to believe in a power greater than her own, one with a higher justice, and a kinder mercy.

Anger at injustice has righted more wrongs than most other things, and it is one of the great creative forces in a civilized society.

I daresay in a way he deserved it, Joseph agreed with reluctance. But which of us can afford what we deserve? I need better, don't you?

Oi didn't loike that bloke, Captain. Bastard, 'e were, but Oi s'pose rules is for them yer don't loike. Yer won't 'urt them as yer do. In't that what God's about, been fair to them as rubs your coat all the wrong way?

Without law, who will protect the mother and child who are tomorrow's strength? Who will protect the geniuses of the mind, the inventor, the artist who enriches the world but has not the power of money or physical ability to defend himself? Who will protect the wise who are old, and might fall victim to the powerful and foolish? Indeed who will protect the strong from themselves?

That you have one set of rules for yourselves, and another for us

What was freedom worth without safety from injustice, violence and hunger? Freedom to do what?

Crime must be paid for, but not all sins or mistakes need be made public and explained for everyone to examine and remember. And sometimes victims were punished doubly, once by the offense itself, and then a second and more enduring time when others heard of it, pored over it, and imagined every intimate detail.

But I have learned something good about myself. I can stand up to people who have more power than I do, and fight for what I believe in.

worked night and day to prove his innocence." "Indeed, Mr. Pitt knows it most of all," Grisewood said with a wide smile. "The prosecution rests, my lord.

You wanted a peaceful, comfortable Christmas, with all reminders of poverty, injustice, or other people's griefs well out of sight, so as not to disturb your pleasure. That isn't what Christmas is about, Wallace. Christmas is about offering hope to all people, not just those like ourselves. Christmas is about everyone: rich or poor, friend or stranger. The moment you exclude anyone, you exclude yourself.

One person's ideals sometimes endanger someone else's privileges.

The more flawed a man was, the shoddier it was to take advantage of his inadequacies to destroy him.

Our way–the Western Way–has always been a work in progress. Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are never definitively settled, but must be addressed again and again as personal and public worlds shift and change. We hold our morals to be absolutes, but the context of our actions and decisions is forever changing. We are not relativists because we seek to re-evaluate again and again our most crucial moral positions.

But even those people, cops, lawyers, doctors, learned what they learned from the aftermath. They weren't there when the killer tore at his victim; they didn't smell the scent of evil; they didn't hear the cries to heaven for something, someone, to intervene.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.

Is there any one of us who doesn't want to strike back at all the evil in this world?