Quotes About Justice

Queer and feminist worlds are built through the effort to support those who are not supported because of who they are, what they want, what they do.

Je crois que je comprends, lança Andréa avec un soupir exaspéré. Mais ce n'est pas aussi simple que tu sembles le croire. Tu es en train de me demander de commettre un crime... de voler des lettres. – Mais ce sont mes lettres. – Je pense que la loi a un autre point de vue, fit Andréa sévèrement. – Oh... la loi rétorqua Claire, en réglant d'un geste vague le sort des justices française et britannique réunies.

Contrary to what Comstock and the physicians on the jury seemed to believe, women in distress could find a way to end an unwanted pregnancy, so long as they could pay for it. For every case that came to public view because something went terribly wrong, there were a hundred or more that remained a private matter.

He was still assuming the guilty party was a man, which was likely, after all. Women killed with poison; men made a science of inflicting pain.

I am just as worthy as the next man," Onorato would think, "even if he is rich or from an important family.

Karma is not a sentence already printed. It is a series of words that authors can arrange as she chooses.

world's first labor story: Exodus. Pharaoh was the first bad boss, Moses was the first labor leader, and the Exodus was the first strike.

On NCIS or White Collar, I'd forcefully persuade a reluctant judge to issue a search warrant and then persuade my equally reluctant boss to give me access to a portable X-ray machine, and then I'd find Sebastian's body and make an arrest—after a near-death escape from Nabiyev, whom I'd overpower despite his bigger size and more massive gun power. I wished I were a TV detective.

You know me, Bobby--I have an instinct for crime. Where evil flourishes, there I will be, on my self-appointed mission to stamp it out.

We killed an innocent girl

Guilty until proven innocent - A

If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. —CONFUCIUS

But just remember, the world has a way of balancing out: when someone is given back, something else must be taken away.

Good-bye, Nisha, I added my farewell to my sister's. I promise, whoever did this to us is going to pay.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don't call a death murder.

I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

Criminals are just regular people who didn't have time to read all the laws.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.