Quotes About Justice

The vice-presidential carriage arrived, splattering us sternly but justly with mud.

Sollte die Freiheit zu streben, die uns die Götter in allen Umständen des Lebens gelassen haben, sollte diese ein Mensch dem andern verkümmern können?

The implication of "making whiteness," of course, is that whiteness can be unmade, so that other, more democratic grounds of coherence can be established and lived.

We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.

It isn't. when you come to think of it a quite respectable trade, the detection of the innocent, for aren't lovers nearly always innocent? They have committed no crime, they are certain in their own minds that they have done no wrong, 'as long as no one but myself is hurt', the old tag is ready on their lips, and love, of course, excuses everything -- so they believe and so I used to believe in the days when I loved.

His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.

What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.

Quizás haya un profeta también junto al juez en esos tribunales donde se toman nuestras verdaderas decisiones.

He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live.

peine forte et dure.

You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless.

Execution shed

annihilation, forgiveness, punishment or peace.

We cannot always do what is right, Uriel. There is often a great gulf in the difference between the way things are and the way we believe they should be. Sometimes we must learn to accept the things we cannot change.' 'No, lord admiral, I believe we must endeavour to change the things we cannot accept. It is by striving against that which is perceived as wrong that makes a great warrior.

I hammered and forged myself upon the anvil of battle and conquest. All that I have achieved in the last two centuries will be given away to weak men and women who were not here to shed their blood with us in the dark places of the galaxy. Where is the justice in that? Lesser men will rule what I have conquered, but what will be my reward once the fighting is done?

It gives me no pleasure to do this,' said Sharrowkyn. 'You are nothing to me, simply a rabid dog that needs to be put down.

Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine.

Magneto Was Right' - Quentin Quire

he regarded the massive destruction of space war, the necessary total vanquishing of an enemy, as an essentially immoral act. Yet he desired justice for the Earth's murder as much as any of the children

Of all the illusions of childhood, the one he hated to lose most was this: that humans worked according to unspoken but noble goals, that they followed an intrinsic path to justice, that they would resist error and move toward self-understanding.

Don't apologize for believing the world is in better shape than it is," the commissioner told him. "Just fight to make it true.