Terry Pratchett Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

  Terry Pratchett

  Order, Justice, Molecules

  "Fictional character: Death". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

• He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Views, Punishment, Justice

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.252, Random House

• It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Justice, Nannies, Guilty

• THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

  Terry Pratchett

  Justice, Said

• There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Justice, Said, Ifs

• Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

  Terry Pratchett

  Eggs, Justice, Boiled Eggs

• You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Believe, Justice

  "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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