Justice quotes

“To die there in the street would have been easy. But it wouldn't have been justice, at least not the justice fathers teach their sons about. I'll be sentenced in a week or so. My lawyer says the judge will look kindly upon me for turning myself in. Maybe it's not the happiest of endings, but it's the right one.”
Jim Carrey - Walter Sparrow

“You're a good pupil, Prospero. When your turn comes, I hope you'll remember that there's more justice in this world than mercy... and little enough justice.”
Patrick Macnee - Machiavel

“I will take your case if only to make it abundantly clear how justice in South Africa is misapplied when it comes to the question of race.”
Marlon Brando - McKenzie

“Those who can't afford lobbyists have no advocate.”
Robin Williams - Tom Dobbs

“- Frank Castle: It's been five months since my family was killed. I don't see one man in jail.
- Police Chief Morris: Obviously you're upset...
- Frank Castle: Upset? Is that the word? I used to get upset. When I got a flat tire, when a plane was delayed. I used to get upset when the Yankees won the series. So if that's what upset means, what am...” (continue)(continue reading)
Thomas Jane - Frank Castle
Marco St. John - Police Chief Morris

“Justice ain't about bringing back the dead, white man. Justice is about justice. Your friend the policeman, your friend the judge, they make sure nothing happens to you. They keep you safe. But I make sure something happens to them. That's justice, white man. Gypsy justice!”
Michael Constantine - Tadzu Lempke

“I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere - wherever you can look. Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beating up a guy, I'll be there.”

Henry Fonda - Tom Joad

“There's no justice like angry-mob justice.”
Harry Shearer - Principal Skinner

“- Juror #8: Ever since we've walked into this room, you've acted like a self-appointed public avenger!
- Juror #3: Shut up...
- Juror #8: You want the boy to die for your own personal reasons, not because of the facts!”
Jack Lemmon - Juror #8
George C. Scott - Juror #3

“Parents aren't interested in justice, they want quiet!”
Bill Cosby - Bill Cosby

“- Matt Murdock: Justice isn't a sin, Father.
- Father Everett: No, but vengeance is. You see it every day on the street: violence begets more violence. Is that how you want to live your life? A lawyer during the day, and then judge and jury at night?”
Ben Affleck - Matt Murdock
Derrick O'Connor - Father Everett

“The law means everything to me and if any arm of the law is corrupt nothing can work, nothing. It is simple as that.”
James Tolkan - Assistant U.S. Atty. George Polito

“- Major Tetley: Other men with families have had to die for this sort of thing. It's too bad, but it's justice.
- Donald Martin: What do you care about justice? You don't even care whether you've got the right men or not. All you know is you've lost something and somebody's got to be punished.”
Frank Conroy - Major Tetley
Dana Andrews - Donald Martin

“From the decay rose a new order, a society ruled by a new, elite force. A force with the power to dispense both justice and punishment. They were the police, jury and executioner all in one. They were the Judges.”
James Earl Jones - Narrator

“It's a fearful thing to send a man's soul to perdition, but I am bound by my conscience and by my love of my king to deal out justice.”

Leonard Mudie - Baron Jeffreys

“Mr. Rat, I have a writ here says you're to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now it's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of the same. See? Doesn't pay any attention to me.”
John Wayne - Rooster Cogburn

“Rollo Tamasi is the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It's supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way, I lost sight of that.”

Guy Pearce - Ed Exley

“- Boss Spearman: We come for justice, not vengeance. Now them is two different things.
- Charley Waite: Not today they ain't.”
Robert Duvall - Boss Spearman
Kevin Costner - Charley Waite

“Law is a lot more than words you put in a book, or judges or lawyers or sheriffs you hire to carry it out. It's everything people ever have found out about justice and what's right and wrong. It's the very conscience of humanity.”

Henry Fonda - Gil Carter

“If you win this case, justice will prevail. And if you lose, justice will also prevail. Now, that is a strange case.”

Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks

“Emotions are always the enemy of true justice... thank you... you've always been a good friend.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Two-Face

“What I'm fighting for is to prove I'm a better man than the others. There's many a man worse than me, and some better. But I don't think race or country matters a damn. What matters is justice. And that's why I'm here. I'll be treated as I deserve, not as my father deserved.”
Kevin Conway - Sgt. "Buster" Kilrain

“- Hale Chidduck: Do you believe in karma?
- Joe Sarno: Karma's justice without the satisfaction. I don't believe in justice.”
Scott Wilson - Hale Chidduck
James Caan - Joe Sarno

“You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You gotta kill him or let him be.”
John Wayne - Rooster Cogburn

“- Lila Loomis: Don't you realize they're going to release a homicidal maniac?
- Judge: Sit down, Mrs. Loomis.
- Lila Loomis: Why bother? It's all too obvious. Our courts are protecting criminals, not their victims.”
Vera Miles - Lila Loomis
Ben Hartigan - Judge