George III Quotes

Justice is revenge.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Recompense injury with justice.

… vengeance is seldom justice.

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

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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.

Do not allow your hatred for others to make you swerve to wrongdoing and turn you away from justice.

… blind apostles not of mere justice but of all human decency, blind apostles not of equity but of all human outrage and vengeance.

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

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

Every punishment is based, not on logic or the feeling of justice, but on the desire to wish evil on those who have done evil to you or to another person…. Everything about our present system of punishments and about all criminal law will be thought of by future generations in the same way that we think of cannibalism or human sacrifice to the pagan gods. “How did they not see the uselessness and cruelty of those things which they did?” our descendants will say about us.

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

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

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.