549 quotes found
“Wendy is still dead. I hadn't understood before: it really doesn't bring them back. Somehow, you think, despite what you know, it will be a trade. Find the person who did the wrong thing and they w...”
“Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with...”
“The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.”
“We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.”
“We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.”
“Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that wiil devour your very soul.”
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
“A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unn...”
“Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.”
“Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.”
“Justice never sleeps.”
“Thomas Jefferson's Letter to John Holmes on the Missouri Statehood Question April 20, 1820I thank you, dear Sir, for the copy you have been so kind as to send me of the letter to your constituents...”
“The one who has suffered has the right to decide the course of action....Punishment or Let Go is purely the call of the sufferer.”
“If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!”
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.”
“Justice might well prevail in the end, but ordinary people like me had no guarantee of surviving that long. We might get killed on the whim of some serial killer first.”
“Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged.”
“Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!”
“My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the ot...”
“It's Unfair to be fairBecause Life is unfair”
