Justice - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy. — Terry Pratchett Witches Abroad

Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse. — Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner:...

The hands of Hitler were filthy, but those of the United States were not clean. Our government had accepted, was still accepting, the subordination of black people in what we claimed was a democratic society. Our government threw Japanese families into concentration camps on the racist supposition that anyone Japanese—even if born in this country—could not be allowed to remain free. — Howard Zinn You Can't Be...

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation. — Howard Zinn You Can't Be...

The truth is that torture creates the torturers — Jean-Paul Sartre Our shame in...

Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

Yes, suddenly I saw it like this: most people are fooled through a double erroneous belief: believe in the eternal memory {of people, things, acts, nations} and in the possibility of repair { of acts,...

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs...

Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child," Papa continued. "Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway got you. You are the man...

The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice — Rick Riordan The Blood of...

Please!' That word didn't make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice. 'You're already dead,' Nico said. 'You're a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won't be sharing any secrets. — Rick Riordan The Blood of...

Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to be joked about. — Charlie Huston Sleepless

A crime that goes unpunished perpetuates sin among people, undermines confidence in divine justice, and paves the way for more crimes to be committed. — Naguib Mahfouz Akhenaten:...

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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