Aeschylus Quotes

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

I felt that justice had been served and that the world was, in some way, a better place for all of us.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

I want no mercy. I want justice, justice, justice.

What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape

There is no injustice without justice coming after, just as there is no night not followed by day.

There is no justice if wrongdoers go unpunished and victims do not feel avenged.

When karma lands, it lands hard.

There was some justice in his pain

As we sin, so do we suffer

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.