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“The decrease in the number of killings doesn’t make any difference if the society has to sleep with the ghosts of the old devil.”
“We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provi...”
“Is his work vengeance? Or Justice? There is the finest line between the two and when i try to focus on it, it becomes less and less clear.”
“It’s called being in love. It’s more frightening than confronting your deepest fear and opens you to being hurt beyond the physical plane.” He placed a hand over his heart. “It might seem as though...”
“High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.”
“As he himself said, "I will prove it to you, gentlemen, and i will prove it in two ways. First in the blinding clarity of the facts, and second, in the dim light cast by the mind of his criminal soul.”
“He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that t...”
“The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.”
“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”
“The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.”
“Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.”
“It is always wise as it is also fair to test a man by the standards of his own day and not by those of another.”
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.”
“Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen.”
“Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.”
“Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection or too fresh the grudge.”
“This is a court of law young man not a court of justice.”
“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.”
“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
“Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.”
