Justice Quote by Robert Jordan

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

— Sophie Swetchine

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws…

— Thucydides

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

— Anonymous

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

— Gregory David Roberts

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested…

— Anonymous

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is…

— Sophocles

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

— Francis Bacon

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other,…

— Epicurus