Quotes About Justice

In other words, the case, almost from the beginning, was more about covering up mistakes and protecting the careers of powerful people than in finding the truth about who killed Meredith Kercher.

That light of outrage is the light of history

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

From a just fraud God turneth not away.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Death is preferable -- it is a milder fate than tyranny.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

When strength and justice are true yoke-fellows, where can be found a mightier pair than they?

The base of justice is firmly set, and fate, the swordsmith, hammers out her sword beforehand.