Quotes About Justice

JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Your client is Judas Iscariot! Your client sold out the son of God, for Chrissakes!

The synthesis of Love and Justice can produce only Mercy and Forgiveness, Your Honor! If a just God sits in Heaven, it can fall no other way!

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.

That scared me a lot. It scared me how much it scared me. Being punished for something you did not do. Or being an innocent victim. It's just something that I never want to experience.

In French eyes, it was of course doubly wrong to execute a beautiful woman.

I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.

but until we fix the government policies that breed poverty, we have condemned the poor, black, white, and brown to a life of economic slavery

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root - Thoreau

No wrong will ever be done you by our nation."3

America is the first democratic nation-state, now more than two and a quarter centuries old. Our greatest triumphs are the 18th century creation of our democratic republic, the 19th century abolishment of slavery and the holding together of our Union, and our 20th century crushing of totalitarianism.

In my interviews with World War II veterans, they sometimes tell me that the reason they fought was they had learned as children the difference between right and wrong and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed, so they fought.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."35

But this is England, where the only crime is to be Found Out.

I have always disbelieved that Sicilian saying about revenge being a dish best served cold. I feel that – don't you? – when I see blinking, quivering octogenarian Nazi war criminals being led away in chains. Why not then? It's too late now. I want to see them taken back in time and punished then.

Strife's sister NEMESIS was the embodiment of Retribution, that remorseless strand of cosmic justice that punishes presumptuous, overreaching ambition – the vice that the Greeks called hubris.

In this country, amid the clash of arms, the laws are not silent. They may be changed, but they speak the same language in war as in peace. It has always been one of the pillars of freedom, one of the principles of liberty for which…we are now fighting, that the judges…stand between the subject and any attempted encroachments on his liberty by the executive, alert to see that any coercive action is prohibited in law.100

Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity.

Son, I don't think you understand. These boys killed my dog.

It can be foolish as all get-out, yes, ma'am. It doesn't make much sense. But I was just taught to hurt no man except the man who hurt me and mine. I have no other star to steer by. That and to do my duty as I understand it. If I followed those two rules, I'd be okay.

The creed was originally about the fact that race, class, and gender are typically used to divide the human race into us and them to the advantage of us. It aimed to declare that there is no us, no them. We are all children of God. It was about solidarity, not cultural obliteration.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.