Quotes About Justice

Vivá Colombia! We have just killed Pablo Escobar!

How could a nation built upon 'Give me liberty or give me death,' 'all men are created equal,' and 'of the people, by the people, for the people' have ended up waging a shameful, disgraceful war against a people who had done us no harm nor ever would or could?" he wrote.

The system did not punish offenders the way she believed they ought to be punished.

Furthermore, if our views of justice and morality were nothing more than neurochemistry hardwired into us, then we would lose the right to be morally outraged at such things as genocide, rape, murder, and racism. When we deny the dignity of humanity as created in God's image, we saw off the branch upon which we sit to defend it.

Me having the right to get married doesn't take anything away from anyone else. Rights aren't like cake: me having some doesn't mean you get less.

He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him.

He who cannot revenge himself is weak. He who will not is comtemptible.

Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison.

I wondered whether Mrs. Shears had told the police that I had killed Wellington and whether, when the police found out that she had lied, she would go to prison. Because telling lies about people is called slander.

Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.

Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that sets to right all imbalances. Why do you think the saints seldom had the temporal power that we mistakenly identify with the fruits of justice? Do you think they needed it, or cared?

Honor is a complex and important matter best served by doing the right thing.

I suppose that's because you have faith in the judicial system that will try us. Yes. I have faith that we will be found guilty and that we will be shot. Your faith will be rewarded. Why? It hasn't been for the last few years.

nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed.

The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action.

the poor were duped into fighting to defend the privileges of the rich.

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

Without the sense that individuals are responsible for their own actions, and that there are appropriate consequences to violating society's most basic values, the concepts of morality and right and wrong become meaningless. And then you have no society.

Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a formal embodiment of a moral code, not as a free-standing substitute for it.

Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of America because you were born in it?