Quotes About Justice

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

When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair. High and strong the chateaux, lowly and weak the brushwood hut; but God help the seigneur and his lady when the men of the brushwood set their hands to the work of revenge! Through

It is very well to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing.

Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public

when a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it.

one is a punishment and the other is a misfortune

However, wretch as he was, he was still living under the shield of British law, and I have no doubt, Inspector, that you will see that, though that shield may fail to guard, the sword of justice is still there to avenge.

Há momentos, meu jovem, que cada um de nós deve se posicionar em prol da justiça e dos direitos humanos, ou você nunca mais se sentirá limpo outra vez.

there is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman

Sure, what is murder? Isn't it common enough in these parts? It is, indeed; but it's not for me to point out the man that is to be murdered.

Did you ever hear of a congress of lawyers for simplifying the law and discouraging litigation? What

In a hundred years we will be able to appeal to the criminal's reason and social instincts. To-day we have still to work on his physical constitution, and crash him, physically and mentally, if necessary

Whoever proves right in the end must first be and do wrong. But it is only after the fact that we learn who was right to begin with.

Conscience renders one as unfit for the revolution as a double chin. Conscience eats through the brain like a cancer, until the whole of the grey matter is devoured.

It is impossible to reign innocently. Saint-Just

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. More weight, he says. And died.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!

If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.