Quotes About Justice

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

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.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

It's every man's business to see justice done.

By my soul! I would rather have a dry death, quoth Sir Oliver. Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me.

Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it's any use in lighting you to the truth. This woman is innocent and this woman has to be cleared, and it's up to you to do it. Name your figure! My professional charges are upon a fixed scale, I do not vary them, save when I remit them altogether.

When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.

Punishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last.

This great and sombre stage is set for something more worthy than that," said he. "It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence," I remarked. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged.

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.

I have asked myself if the best which can be done with virtue is to shut it within high walls as though it were some savage creature. If the good will lock themselves up, and if the wicked will still wander free, then alas for the world! Alleyne

Let the high God judge between us. Choose and eat. There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave. Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

When once the law is evoked it cannot be stayed again, and

No man ever crossed me and was the better for it. So many have said so, and yet here I am, said Holmes, smiling.

We're an equal-opportunity abuser here. (Syd)

I'd like to see one of those classroom cops stay objective when they find a kid's blood splattered all over the sidewalk in front of her own house. It never gets any easier, does it?" "I don't think it's supposed to," Walker said. "If we get used to it, we're as bad as they are.