Quotes About Justice

It is never permitted to deprive members of foreign races of human rights – the right to freedom, the right to property, the right to an insoluble marriage; never is it permitted to subject anyone to [such] cruelties.…

this was part of the plan they failed to bring off – the three worst murderers amongst the SS, Kurt Franz, Miete and Mentz (significantly enough not Stangl), would be "executed" by the insurgents.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive.

Justice has nothing to do with it. Stark, bloody, screaming, agonizing vendeance is what I'm talking about.

If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist? That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

The law isn't always about what's right. Or wrong. A lot of times it's about somebody being guaranteed an advantage over somebody else. And that's human nature. That's the nature of any sentient species

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.

righteousness is not a shield. The good die more quickly than the bad.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains.

People don't want to be told to do right. They don't really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it's not fair, it's not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper.

Equal justice for all. As long as you make it yourself.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Was I thinking that everything would turn out all right in the long run? That it was the fair thing to happen, that it was due me? That things could go wrong only to a point? Some atheist with such beliefs!

Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account. -Sinead Starling

Justice and fairness aren't just part of the social studies curriculum, you know. They're the building blocks of our entire society.

I don't know what you guys have in mind," Pitch said, "but I vote we march it straight to the police station and shove it up Vizzini's nose.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

I believe in justice, I want redress for all wrongs done, I want the good life-if such a thing exists-accessible to all. Yet, emotionally, I would be only too happy to become world dictator, if only to fulfill my mission: the destruction of the last vestigial traces of traditional manhood in the race to realign the sexes, thus reducing population, while increasing human happiness and preparing humanity for its next stage.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

In other words, if public opinion is not unduly aroused one may safely set aside the Constitution and illegally arrest one's enemies. Had this letter been published at the time, an excellent case might have been made for the impeachment and removal of a president who had broken that oath he had taken to defend and to protect the Constitution by conspiring to obstruct and pervert the course of justice.

Since a president can do wrong and since he can be named in debate, he is not an anointed king and so like any man is answerable to the law." John Marshall then summoned President Jefferson to Richmond