Quotes About Justice

What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?' 'That's not good, that's triumph

But can love born of revenge avoid turning into cruel sport?

Law enforcement all the way? It was that or become a criminal.

Caro told Una, Josie's belief in her innocence is her warrant for doing harm. Una said, Like America.

How should you hope for mercy, rendering none?

Poor people were dying of cold, they were swelling up with hunger. The children were falling like flies. But it wasn't so terrible, because only the poor were dying. May God not punish me.

In a word, do I have to tell you what sort of breed lawyers are?

As my mother says, "God is a father. He punishes with one hand and heals with the other." That's something I don't get. Why punish and then heal? You could save yourself the trouble by skipping both.

But generals who warm themselves by the fire in a tent should not reproach the soldiers that are taken prisoner

chi è libero non ha bisogno di negare la libertà ad altri

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

On trial... the most important factor is not innocence or guilt, but the impression of innocence or guilt. There's no absolute truth. Just the interpretation of truth.

In tal modo era taciuta l'uccisione di Dio, ma un crimine la cui espiazione richiedeva che una vittima fosse immolata non poteva esser stato che un omicidio.

Catherine [of Siena] compares justice combined with mercy with a precious pearl. Justice without mercy would be dark, cruel, more like injustice than justice. But mercy without justice would be like salve on a sore which should be cleansed with the red-hot iron; if the salve is applied before the wound is cleansed it only makes it smart, and does not heal it

The Roman people paid great attention to the rightness of their wars in the building of the empire. 'When the inception of war seems just,' ran the logic, 'it makes victory greater and ill success less perilous, while if it is thought to be dishonourable and wrong, it has the opposite effect'.

I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.

What is the value of being a criminal investigator in a state run by criminals ?

Thoughts of revenge must give way to the need for swift action

judges in seventeenth-century France were discouraged from socializing on the grounds that friends and acquaintances might one day be called before the court.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Podían los muchachos ser culpados por los pecados de sus progenitores? Ciertamente no eran ellos los responsables

Did he know already that he would get a sunflower when he was buried? The murderer would own something even when he was dead…And I?

Look,' he said, 'those Jews died quickly, they did not suffer as i do—though they were not as guilty as I am.

For evil to flourish it takes only a few good men to do nothing.