Quotes About Justice

I walked away with the cheerful step of a police officer who's just made a tricky ethical question somebody else's problem.

People still use the phrase hoisted by his own petard

When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.

Policing is about moving from the unknown to the known and then further—to the provable.

Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. Publius Cornelius Tacitus

So, actions were still being actioned and me and Guleed were actioning them, and the wheels of justice ground on. Albeit in first gear. So

Exurge domine et judica causum tuam," said Nightingale. " 'Arise, O God, judge thy own cause.' " "Psalm 73," said Postmartin. "The motto of the Spanish Inquisition." "Well, fuck me," said Seawoll. "I wasn't expecting them.

was done fucking about in the shadows—it was time to get legal.

The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

A hedge knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other knights serve the lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every knight swears to protect the weak and innocent, but we keep the vow the best, I think.

You laid hands upon the blood of the dragon and for that offense, you must be punished.

For a society based on the rule of law, the de facto reality that police officers are often treated as if they are above the law is repulsive.

Not baked goods! BAKED BADS!!!!" --The Tick

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

We prefer "survivor".' 'But this particular woman is dead,' Matlock pointed out. 'Yes.' 'So "survivor" isn't really an appropriate term.' 'I'm aware of that. What we need is a new term for survivors of assault who died.

He half-hears the familiar accusation that the policeman drones, a terribly matter-of-fact drone. Another raid on a suspected flat. Routine, routine. Evil has its eternal root in the cities. A tireless Satan, bored with the monotony of his rôle; a tireless Justice, bored with the routine of tears and pleadings, lies and guilt. There is no story in all this.

I'll give you another chance," he says. "The next time it'll be jail. Keep this in mind. If you're brought in again, no excuses will go. Call the next case." Now one can follow Fanny. She walks out of the courtroom. The street swallows her. Nobody in the crowds knows what has happened. Fanny is anybody now. Still, one may follow. Perhaps something will reveal itself, something will add an illuminating touch to the incident of the courtroom.

The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

When informed that a clerk at the Portuguese embassy was spying for both the Germans and the Italians, he wrote: "Why don't you shoot him?

retribution [sic] for the wrongs I have committed.

you can be unethical and still be legal.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.