Lady Colin Campbell Quotes

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

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

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

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.

Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.

Nations cannot endure in sin.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

Every person who is tempted to go astray does not deserve punishment

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

Law is not self-executing. Unfortunately, at times its execution rests in the hands of those who are faithless to it. And even when its enforcement is committed to those who revere it, law merely deters some human beings from offending, and punishes other human beings for offending. This does not make men good. This task can be performed only by ethics or religion or morality.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Good laws are produced by bad actions.

Every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

I have huge respect for whistle-blowers, people who stand up against their bosses and losing their careers, just for truth and justice.

I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.