Quotes About Justice

Unfortunately, if the man who leaves the prison gates is just as likely or - as is sometimes grievously the case - more likely to offend as he was when he entered them, then we fail not only the individual but public safety as well.

I am committed to improving public safety outcomes from our state's juvenile justice system.

Just and equal society could be made by drastically improving the condition of India's public schools.

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

Confrontational or not, my approach to public service has always been fighting for my families.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

I believe we should come down very firmly on the guilty without infringing the civil liberties of the innocent, like publishing mobile phone bills.

As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.

I'm a felon. I get pulled over all the time.

We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.

I tend to write two stories every day, five days a week. It's a real grind. But it also allows me to really try to have my finger on the pulse of injustice in America.

I used to break glasses and punch people in 'Ek Hasina Thi,' but it was all pardoned as my character was negative.

Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't been shot at and punched. I have. I've paid my dues to be able to say I'm not a racist.

When I went to the prosecutor's office, I wanted to be one of the good guys that the defense could trust. I'd try fair, clean cases, pull no punches, no below-the-belt stuff. Honorable. Because that's the kind of prosecutor I wanted to deal with.

Pulling punches because someone happens to be a woman is disgusting.

As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.

The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.

I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

The retention of the power to punish for contempt for acts of speech alone, which do not directly interfere with the administration of justice, has removed the last shred of accountability of the higher judiciary in the country.