Justice quotes

“It is the justice of peace and compassion. The justices desire to bring people together, not to drive them apart.”
Aletta Bezuidenhout - Elsa Malan

“Every morality play has its cast of characters. There is always an innocent victim…a deceitful villain…a prosecutor who seeks the truth…a magistrate that dispenses justice…and a lawyer who charges too much.”
Brenda Strong - Mary Alice Young

“When we take action to avenge the ones we love personal justice collides with social and divine justice. We become judge, jury, and God. With that choice comes daunting responsibility. Some men cave under that weight. Others abuse the momentum. The true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. His...” (continue)(continue reading)
Victor Newmark - John Teller

“In America, money and power do not tilt the scales of justice.”
Stephanie March - Alexandra Cabot

“The world shows no mercy, so, why should we? Some people have it good, but the rest of us, we have to fight for every inch of what’s ours. Not just to score a point. For everything.”
Peyton List - Tory Nichols

“- Anchor: So, ultimately, what feels better? Seeing justice done or seeing your book, Kentucky Blood number one on the New York Times bestseller list?
- Ellison Oswalt: The justice, without question... I'd rather cut my hands off than write a book for fame or money.”
Tavis Smiley - Anchor
Ethan Hawke - Ellison Oswalt

“The truth has not been told in this case. And I understand a lot of time has gone by, but I personally believe that it’s never too late for justice.”

Micheal B. Jordan - Bryan Stevenson

“People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care.”
Lon Chaney Jr. - Martin Howe

“You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star.”
Lon Chaney Jr. - Martin Howe

“- Wendell Armbruster: Is this how justice works in Italy?
- Carlo Carlucci: Shold we talk about Sacco and Vanzetti?”
Jack Lemmon - Wendell Armbruster, Jr.
Clive Revill - Carlo Carlucci

“I am a Catholic priest. I believe that those who fight for justice and truth walk in the path of God and the paths of God are infinite.”
Aldo Fabrizi - Don Pietro Pellegrini

“Okay, God, just... I want you to look down on these girls here. They're like little flowers, and the rain you send 'em gutta be gentle and sweet. We come to you today, and we ask you to just... help 'em - help us grab this pageant by the balls and rip 'em off! I mean, if those judges don't like us, then screw 'em. These girls here - they're...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Zahn - Wayne

“- Dr. Sanders: If the sheriff did his duty, you'd be locked up in a cell!
- Carol Nelson: If the state did its duty, you'd be locked up in a cell - a padded cell!”
Arthur Aylesworth - Dr. Sanders
Kay Francis - Carol Nelson

“Justice is coming to all of us, no matter what the fuck we do. You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Edward Blake

“- Ichabod Crane: The millennium is almost upon us. In a few months, we will be living in the nineteenth century. But our courts continue to rely on medieval devices of torture.
- High Constable: Stand down.
- Ichabod Crane: I stand up for sense and justice.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Alun Armstrong - High Constable

“He may have been a difficult man, but he had a peculiar sense of what was right — and he stuck by it.”
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz On W.C. Fields

“- Alice Evans: He's a killer, Daniel.
- Dan Evans: Then someone ought to have the decency to bring him to justice.”

Gretchen Mol - Alice Evans
Christian Bale - Dan Evans

- Chris 'Izzy' Cole: What's it called when you do something to somebody and they hate it? And somebody else doing the same to you and you hate it too?
- Mats: I suppose some might call it "poetic justice”.
Mark Wahlberg - Chris 'Izzy' Cole
Timothy Spall - Mats

“If the O.J. trial taught us anything, it taught us that, in America, you can cut somebody's head off and still be innocent as long as you have enough money. Well Kansas your mom only shoot a guy.”
Marley Shelton - Diane Weston

“Our society cannot condone men who take the law into their own hands.”
Kevin Spacey - D.A. Rufus Buckley

“Someone has taken justice and hidden it in the law.”
Hal Holbrook - Judge Benjamin Caulfield

“- D.A. Rufus Buckley: Do you think two men who hang a child should be free in 10 years?
- Carl Lee Hailey: No sir.
- D.A. Rufus Buckley: Well what do you think should happen? What would be a fair sentence?”
Kevin Spacey - D.A. Rufus Buckley
Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey

“- Edwin Stanton: When you first learned that our secretary of State has been butchered to within an inch of his life, and that they put a bullet in the back of our president's head, when this city was in chaos, do you not wish to see order restored and justice served, or were you just concerned with the rights of the assassins?
- Frederick Aiken...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Kline - Edwin Stanton
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken

“- Chief Justice Fargo: The blind lady.
- Judge Dredd: Who is she, sir?
- Chief Justice Fargo: Justice before your time. We should never have taken justice out of her hands.”
Max von Sydow - Judge Fargo
Sylvester Stallone - Judge Dredd

“It is to Madame Justice that I dedicate this concerto, in honor of the holiday that she seems to have taken from these parts, and in recognition of the impostor that stands in her stead.”

Hugo Weaving - V