Quotes About Justice

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time.

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

Might makes right.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

And then there were none.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

Men have the best of this world. I hope that it will not always be so.

Justice is, after all, in the hands of men and men are fallible.

She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!" The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: "My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.