3,189 Quotes About Justice

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

Wer es zulässt, dass man ihn beleidigt, verdient es.

The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes.

Sometimes when justice is not close at hand, people are quick to tell you that you will simply have to wait -- that until the people standing on your neck feel more comfortable standing elsewhere, you have no choice but to be patient. They talk of this like it shouldn't be all that much of an inconvenience for you. But how do you hand a person back the time that was taken from him?

You can’t bring justice with a kind heart; even if you could it won’t last.

It’s easier, somehow, if there’s a reason for tragedy---lust or jealousy or hatred or revenge. We can find in these explanations an emotional tenor commensurate with the gravity of the act. There’s something we recognize as human, a motive toward which we can direct our rage but can also understand, at some primal level, as an extension of ourselves.

Every human being needs to know what she's fighting for. That was what they said, And she fought for what was good. For the children she never had. And Ove fought for her.

The law doesn't always know what it's doing. Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.