Quotes About Justice

The U.S. government decided it would become the world sheriff. No one forced it to take on the role. Yet ever since it strapped on its six-guns, the actions of its senior deputies have trivialized the process by rewarding recalcitrance. The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act was an extraordinary opportunity to promote actions that could save the lives and health of many women and girls. That opportunity has been largely squandered.

Part of the problem is that these guys are jerks. They're knuckle-dragging, bone-headed bad guys and they really don't care if their actions hurt the women or the community. —MICHAEL SHIVELY, CRIMINOLOGIST N

So there's nothing inside of me, as a black man in this country, that will let me wait.

Too many guilty people get off scot-free if they have money or influence.

No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.

It is not for me to pass judgement on those prisoners who put their own people above everyone else. Who can throw a stone at a man who favors his friends under circumstances when, sooner or later, it is a question of life or death? No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.

that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.

Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. We had to strive to lead them back to this truth, or the consequences would have been much worse than the loss of a few thousand stalks of oats.

Se necesitaba tiempo y paciencia para que estos hombres aceptasen la lisa y llana verdad de que nadie tiene derecho a hacer el mal, aunque se haya sufrido una atroz injusticia.

No one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them

I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

learned meaninglessness." He himself remembered a therapist who said, "George, you must realize that the world is a joke. There is no justice, everything is random. Only when you realize this will you understand how silly it is to take yourself seriously. There is no grand purpose in the universe. It just is. There's no particular meaning in what decision you make today about how to act."13

Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. We had to strive to lead them back to this truth, or the consequences would have been much worse than the loss of a few thousand

daß niemand das Recht hat, Unrecht zu tun, auch der nicht, der Unrecht erlitten hat.

I cannot be guilty of something that other people have done, even if it is my parents or grandparents.

Niekas neturi teisÄ—s elgtis neteisingai, net ir tas, kuris pats neteisybÄ™ patyrÄ—.

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. We had to strive to lead them back to this truth.

According to what he tells us himself, Mrs. Fryxell used to say of Napoleon: 'I wish he could be punished for all his slaughter by having to go through a childbirth for every human being who was shot on his account'. (A. Fryxell: Min historias historia).

Murderers were not writing literature, after all; they were murdering.

The Saudis think that God is on their side, and people who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts.

Killing these assholes was the most therapeutic thing he'd ever done in his life. It was more effective than a decade of psychotherapy.

it would be very much a mistake to paint Ward as either innocent or a victim.