Quotes about Justice
The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.
— Cormac McCarthy
There's a way to train a horse where when you get done you've got the horse. On his own ground. A good horse will figure things out on his own. You can see what's in his heart. He wont do one thing while you're watching him and another when you aint. He's all of a piece. When you've got a horse to that place you cant hardly get him to do somethin he knows is wrong. He'll fight you over it. And if you mistreat him it just about kills him. A good horse has justice in his heart.
— Cormac McCarthy
Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian. Let's go then. Hump up there, stranger, and let's go get hung.
— Cormac McCarthy
The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.
— Cormac McCarthy
The subject was war. The good book says that he that lives by the sword shall perish by the sword, said the black. The judge smiled, his face shining with grease. What right man would have it any other way? he said.
— Cormac McCarthy
What is true of one man, said the judge, is true of many.
— Cormac McCarthy
The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.
— Cormac McCarthy
People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good.
— Cormac McCarthy
There's little equity in the Lord's gifts.
— Cormac McCarthy
What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.
— Cormac McCarthy
The good book says that he that lives by the sword shall perish by the sword, said
— Cormac McCarthy
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
— DH Lawrence