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

“Justice delivered without dispassion is always in danger of not being justice.”
Tim Roth - Oswaldo Mobray

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

Errol Flynn - Robin Hood

“Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law, and the law is man's feeble attempt to set down the principles of decency. Decency! And decency is not a deal. It isn't an angle, or a contract, or a hustle! Decency... decency is what your grandmother taught you. It's in your bones! Now you go home. Go home and be decent people. Be decent.”
Morgan Freeman - Judge Leonard White

“It would be fitting if I were apprehended and punished. At least there would be some small sign of justice, some small measure of hope for the possibility of meaning.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Chris Wilton

“- 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