Quotes about justice

The justest man in the world is not allowed to be judge in his own cause.

Everything conspires to take away from a man who is set in authority over others the sense of justice and reason.

“The human eye is a wonderful device,” I quoted from Poems and Other Prevarications absently. “With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”

He drew himself up and said with dignity: “We administer justice, Mr. Courtenay. And an ancient, basic tenet of justice is: ‘Better that one thousand innocents suffer unjustly than one guilty person be permitted to escape.’”

If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?

Some consider that such tragedies afflicting apparently blameless people are signs of revengeful justice, the wisdom of which is beyond the understanding of most people. So you will hear them say that if the bereaved father, for example, thought deeply, he would realize his loss was just a punishment for some sin either he or his forebears committed. Yet surely God is more just and merciful than to treat the innocent as the guilty...

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

It did not seem fair to drown the cabin boy and the captain and all the rest for something he had done, but when had the gods ever been fair?

Justice. I remember justice. It had a pleasant taste. Justice was what we were about when Beric led us, or so we told ourselves. We were king’s men, knights, and heroes... but some knights are dark and full of terrors, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.

Sins can be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

Harsh justice is still justice.

That was the way of war. The smallfolk were slaughtered, while the highborn were held for ransom.