Quotes About Justice

What is the difference between the influence of instinct upon a wolf and history upon a man? In both cases, justice is prey to unknown dreams.

Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

ago AIM patrol had caught some towhead Wisconsin boys trying to rob a liquor store. 'They came down hard on those boys,' he said to Hetta. 'You could call it cruel and unusual.' 'Dad? What'd they do?' 'Made them call their moms.' 'So, like, it was Hi, Mom, come get me I got caught looting?

You rarely hear about police killings of Indigenous people, though the numbers are right up there with Black people, because so often it happens on remote reservations, and the police don't wear cameras. So I was thankful, however shattering the truth, for the witnesses with the cameras.

How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really were?

At last I passed along Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

The only way to fight the righteous was to present an argument that would make giving him what he wanted seem the only righteous thing to do.

Well, consider this Custer's payback." "Since my grandfather killed him," said Archille, "there is a certain justice to the idea. Still, Thomas here is a bona fide American citizen. I'm Canadian. My brother fought in the trenches. My uncle was at the Somme.

They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth

He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.

she robbed me blind, the bitch!...and she's still at it! everyone who's ever done me wrong, robbed me, repudiated me, pillaged me has never suffered...and never will suffer! you could call it their reward!...robbing me brings you good luck!

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offense.

A slave must at all costs be slightly, if not superlatively, contemptible. An assortment of chronic moral and physical defects justifies the horrible treatment he is getting. Then the earth turns more smoothly, for each man occupies the place he deserves. A person you make use of should

I've known a good many sufferers from conviction mania … Of many different types … And in the last analysis, those who talk about justice seem to be the maddest of the lot!

As the savage progresses, he acquires experience and formulates codes of 'right' and 'wrong' from his memories of those courses which have helped or hurt him... Then out of the principle of barter comes the illusion of 'justice' ...

Justice was its own art, shining light into the shadows, complex yet ultimately as simple as can be: bringing balance, making things right. Helping women know that their experience, no matter how horrific, was their strength. It showed them that they were their own superheroes.

Justice was its own art, shining light into the shadows, complex yet ultimately as simple as can be: bringing balance, making things right.

We're keeping them alive, she said. Sweetheart, the fence, the wall, is inhumane. People are dying. That's their choice,he actually said. They come here illegally, that's the chance they take. When did you get so hard? she asked, holding his face between her hands. They're human beings like us, looking for a better life for their families. You understand that, don't you? You did it for us. It's a humanitarian crises, she said. And you're part of the problem. That's why you can't sleep at night.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

The law holds man in bondage; love makes him free.

Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Nella vita c'era la giustizia come per la campagna le cattive annate

come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch'egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si scusa.