Quotes About Justice

If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars, he said.

Brutus and Cassius howl in Hell together

What had she to do with the justice or injustice of other people? She had to endure and love, and that she did.

in today's America the proud claim of "justice for all" is being replaced by the more modest claim of "justice for those who can afford it.

It's expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.

aunque la economía de goteo hacia abajo no funciona, la economía de goteo hacia arriba sí puede funcionar: todo el mundo —incluso los de arriba— podría beneficiarse dando más a los de abajo y a los de en medio.

University of California professor Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, and Stefanie Stantcheva of the MIT Department of Economics, carefully taking into account the incentive effects of higher taxation and the societal benefits of reducing inequality, have estimated that the tax rate at the top should be around 70 percent—what it was before President Reagan started his campaign for the rich.68 But

La desigualdad es una opción, no algo inevitable.

It is not particular judges who are bought but the laws themselves, through campaign contributions and lobbying, in what has come to be called "corruption, American-style." In some states judges are elected, and in those states there's an even closer connection between money and "justice." Monied interests use campaign contributions to get judges who are sympathetic to their causes.

What's worrying is that those in the 1 percent, in attempting to claim for themselves an unjust proportion of the benefits of this system, may be willing to destroy the system itself to hold on to what they have. This

importancia de las democracias donde imperan el derecho, el debido proceso legal, los sistemas de pesos y contrapesos y una miríada de instituciones implicadas en descubrir, evaluar y decir la verdad.

Cuarto, una sociedad menos dividida, una economía con mayor equidad, funciona mejor.

Lograr una sociedad más justa requiere de igualdad de oportunidades, pero a la vez esta requiere de mayor igualdad de ingresos y riqueza.

misshapen economy creates misshapen individuals and a misshapen society

The rule of law is supposed to protect the weak against the strong and ensure fair treatment for all.

Those at the top have managed to design a tax system in which they pay less than their fair share—they pay a lower fraction of their income than do those who are much poorer.

Trump doesn't have a plan to help the country; he has a plan to continue the robbery of the majority by those at the top.

The economic elite have pushed for a framework that benefits them at the expense of the rest, but it is an economic system that is neither efficient nor fair. I explain how our inequality gets reflected in every important decision that we make as a nation—from our budget to our monetary policy, even to our system of justice—and show how these decisions themselves help perpetuate and exacerbate this inequality.13 Given

Trickle-up economics can work, even when trickle-down economics doesn't. Even

felony muscles

And obstructing justice, which is another felony.

The second unwholesome action to avoid is stealing—taking that which doesn't belong to us.

There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

Don't be so blinded by your morals you fail to do what's right. - Isaac Asimov For the pagan there is no hell. - Rimbaud