Justice quotes

“- Uryens: In the name of God, St. Michael and St. George, I give you the right to bear arms and the power to mete justice!
- Arthur: That duty I will solemnly obey, as knight and king.”

Keith Buckley - Uryens
Nigel Terry - King Arthur

What is an unalienable right if you are a negro? What does it mean, "equal treatment" under the law? What-what does it mean, liberty and justice for all? Now I say to these people, "Look at the face of this young man, and you will see the face of a black man. But if you look at the blood shed, it is red! It is like yours! It is just... like... (continue)(continue reading)
Frankie Faison - Eulogist

“- Sarah: That's not fair!
- Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah
David Bowie - Jareth

“Did you know 90% of the country believes in ghosts? less than a third in evolution? 35% can correctly identify Homer Simpson's fictional town in which he resides, less than 1% knows the name Thurgood Marshall. But... when you put 12 Americans together in a jury and you ask for justice? Something just South of brilliance happens. Often as not,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Downey Jr. - Hank Palmer

“Justice doesn't mean the bad guy goes to jail, it just means that someone pays for the crime.”
Mario - Andre Bryant

“Till they invent a trigger a woman can't pull, if you're a hang man, you're going to hang woman.”
Tim Roth - Oswaldo Mobray

When the handbill says "dead or alive", the rest of us just shoot you in the back from up on top a perch somewhere and bring you in dead over a saddle. But when John Ruth “The Hangman” catches you... You hang!
Samuel L. Jackson - Major Marquis Warren

“It's injustice I hate, not the Normans.”

Errol Flynn - Robin Hood

“- Juror #4: Gentlemen, let me remind you this case is based on a reasonable and logical progression of facts. Please, let's keep it.
- Juror #11: Facts may be coated by the personalities of the people who present them. Let's not forget that.”
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Juror #4
Edward James Olmos - Juror #11

“In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice.”
Thomas Jane - Frank Castle

“I just wish you could be standing where I'm standing right now and feel what that feels like; because, then, you would know something that you don't know, Mr. Prosecutor: mercy! You would know that the concept of a society is based on the quality of that mercy; its sense of fair play; its sense of justice! But I guess that's like asking a bear...” (continue)(continue reading)

Brad Davis - Billy Hayes

“He sees, but does not observe. Whereas I see and observe and thus bring many notorious blaggards to justice.”

Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

In my religion, they say, "Act as if you had faith... and faith will be given to you". If... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And act with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts.

Paul Newman - Frank Galvin

“Those who will not live by the law shall die by the law!”
Charlton Hesto - Moses

“- Ed Exley: How's it going to look on your report?
- Bud White: It'll look like justice. That's what the man got.”
Guy Pearce - Ed Exley
Russell Crowe - Bud White

“Justice, young man, is only irrelative to who's in charge.”
Marius Weyers - Prof. Daniel Marais

“Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.”
Gabriel Macht

“There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free.”
Sir Sean Connery - King Arthur

“What we hold to be right, and good, and true is right and good and true for all men. Otherwise we're just another robbertribe.”
Sir Sean Connery - King Arthur

“Although justice must be tempered with mercy, it must still maintain a sense of retribution.”
Michael Moriarty - EADA Benjamin 'Ben' Stone

“I'm trying to decide what to arrest you for - obstruction of justice, harboring a fugitive or just being a general pain in the ass!”
Jerry Orbach - Detective Leonard 'Lennie' Briscoe

“In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.”
Steven Zirnkilton - Narrator

“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 innocentvictim…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