Top 1200 Retributive Justice Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is our own pleasure of seeing someone who hurt us getting it back and then some. Justice, on the other hand, is secure when someone pays a fair penalty for wronging another even if the injured person takes no pleasure in the transaction. Vengeance is personal satisfaction. Justice is moral accounting...Human forgiveness does not do away with human justice.

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

Whenever people would speculate about the death of my grandfather it was always this very retributive thing. That they were going to picket his funeral after all the things that he had done to so many other people. That vindictiveness is obviously completely understandable. It would make perfect sense.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Secret courts require great faith that the Justice Department - and future Justice Departments - will act with integrity.

A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.

The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

As chair of the Energy Subcommittee, I look forward to passing visionary policy that seeks to infuse climate justice with economic and racial justice.

Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice... Restorative justice is a fad.

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

The modern military justice system is by design a body incapable of blind justice.

The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.

The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.

One of the hallmarks of the sign of Aquarius is the campaign for justice. Everybody is my brother. Justice is very important to me.

Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

To all my colleagues at the Department of Justice, let me say that it is a privilege to serve with you. I will do all I can to support your work in advancing the cause of justice.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.

Growing up with a father who was a judge, I heard a lot about justice. But for justice to be applied, punishments need to fit their crimes.

I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

The education justice movement and the prison justice movement have been operating separately in many places as though they're in silos. But the reality is we're not going to provide meaningful education opportunities to poor kids, kids of color, until and unless we recognize that we're wasting trillions of dollars on a failed criminal justice system.

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

Justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

God's irony, that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb!

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

Justice is juxtaposition in us Justice for all just ain't specific enough.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice