Quotes About Murder And Justice

#1. Anyone who has had the good fortune of spending time with the infinite silence of the trees, will acknowledge their wisdom.

Loretta Lost

#2. What is the meaning of justice when law is used to legalize thievery and murder?

Anne-Marie O'Connor

#3. Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

Julia Ward Howe

#4. The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party.

Steve Buscemi

#5. The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden.

Chris Rock

#6. The sound was loud and soft at the same time, like the sound upon which other sound was built. You didn't hear the horses until you listened for them; and then they were very loud.

Amanda Coplin

#7. I tried to smile, but gravity kept tugging at the corners of my mouth.

Tania Penn

#8. I have wanted ... to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! ... But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

Agatha Christie

#9. If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.

Lysander Spooner

#10. If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

Immanuel Kant

#11. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans - my fellow veterans - whose future you stole,

Thomas Young

#12. And none could cry Murder, but only Justice done.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another, not even when it is cloaked as 'justice' and state-sanctioned. It is only a delusion to believe that one's pain is ended by making someone else feel pain.

Antoinette Bosco

#14. Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Samuel Alexander

#15. The absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

Charles B. Rangel

#17. There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

Gerry Spence

#18. In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.

Bob Beauprez

#19. Y'know what they call the person who does all the work but gets none of the credit? An opportunity.

Brad Meltzer

#20. Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils.

Noam Chomsky

#21. Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.

Zona Gale

#22. I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

J.K. Rowling

#23. I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

Adolf Eichmann

#24. Tooter had gone back to court to testify in Billy's murder trial. The Leavenworth justice system had been a travesty for as long as I could remember, and the term "old boy network" was alive and well there.

Thomas M. Sartain

#25. Don't you see that I'm trying to do exactly that? How in the world can I grow up if I continue to do as I'm told, smiling and nodding like some pretty robot? What kind of a life is that?

Alice Clayton

#26. I was a chief justice. And before that, I was a district court judge, handled major felonies, including capital murder cases; and I handled major civil litigation.

Louie Gohmert

#27. Justice might well prevail in the end, but ordinary people like me had no guarantee of surviving that long. We might get killed on the whim of some serial killer first.

Kouhei Kadono

#28. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, Praise the eternal justice of man!

Mary Shelley

#29. Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.

L.J.Smith

#30. To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude ... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Ronald Blythe

#31. It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

Keri Russell

#32. I have taken many lives in my life. Many children, perhaps husbands, wives, parents. Perhaps it is only just that this same violation was inflicted upon me. Perhaps it is just that one who lives a life of war becomes a refugee from it.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#33. Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

LeCrae

#34. It's only the poor who can't get away with murder.

Marty Rubin

#35. Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination."
"No, this is an execution."
"The difference would be ... ?"
"Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.

Rachel Vincent

#36. Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

John Dryden

#37. Justice!" bleated Othello.
"Justice!" bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn's sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd.

Leonie Swann