Quotes About Justice

But when a god             strikes harm, a worse man often foils his better.

I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good. - Creon

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.

Things gained by unjust fraud are never secure

Fate will never punish a man for returning harm first done to him. Deceit matched by deceit, the tables turned: treachery pays you back in pain, not kindness.

CHORUS: What canst thou plead? OEDIPUS: A plea of justice. CHORUS: How? OEDIPUS: I slew who else would me have slain; I slew without intent, A wretch, but innocent In the law's eye, I stand, without a stain.

I've never known an honest man who can plead so well for any plea whatever.

Banish the man, or pay back blood with blood. Murder sets the plague-storm on the city.

You are the curse, the corruption of the land!

I say you are the murderer you hunt.

you'll pay in tears, I promise you, for this, this witch-hunt.

You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply.

But don't convict me on sheer unverified surmise.

Time alone can bring the just man to light— the criminal you can spot in one short day.

Not if you rule unjustly.

Look at you, sullen in yielding, brutal in your rage— you will go too far. It's perfect justice: natures like yours are hardest on themselves

Evil gains work their punishment.

OD: ?? ???? ?????? ???? ????????? ????. NE: ???' ?? ??????, ??? ????? ??????? ????.

But if any man comes striding, high and mighty in all he says and does, no fear of justice, no reverence for the temples of the gods— let a rough doom tear him down, repay his pride, breakneck, ruinous pride!

In a just cause, the weak overcome the strong".

But if these men are wrong, let them suffer nothing worse than they mete out to me— these masters of injustice!

KREON. Ich gehe, von dir verkannt, gerecht jedoch vor diesen.

I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me. Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you. Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever the please. Antigone to Theben's king Creon