Quotes About Ethics

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

I can't always say that justice is always done in 'Game of Thrones.' It is not.

Justice is the truth in action.

Justice is revenge.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.

We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.

A culture of intimidation has no justification in any administration.

There is no justification for having an affair.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?

As any daytime judge show can tell you, spending someone's money or taking their stuff because they hurt your feelings is not justified.

I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.