John Sandford Quotes

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

The righteous pays for the sinner.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

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

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

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

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.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

We have crime without punishment.

Shall any man be above justice? Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice?

From this window we see the palace where the King is misled by perfidious counsels. Terror and fear have often issued from yon palace: let them return to-day in the name of the law, and let all those who inhabit that palace know that the King is alone inviolable, that the law will strike down the guilty without respect of persons, and that there is not a guilty head which can escape its sword.

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

If I do bad, shoot me.

If I do bad, shoot me.

If I want to call somebody's name out, I want to make sure they've done wrong.

I'm confident ITT will get what it deserves.

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.