Quotes About Justice

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.

Fairs to raise funds for the abolitionist movement also advertised trees.

Working with victimized people requires a committed moral stance. The therapist is called upon to bear witness to a crime. She must affirm a position of solidarity with the victim. This does not mean a simplistic notion that the victim can do no wrong; rather, it involves an understanding of the fundamental injustice of the traumatic experience and the need for a resolution that restores some sense of justice.

Women quickly learn that rape is only a crime in theory; in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is not set at the level of experience of women's violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

In refusing to hide or be silenced, in insisting that rape is a public matter, and in demanding social change, survivors create their own living monument.

What about those who are tasked with implementing justice but instead ally themselves with the powerful? Often, survivors will feel the bitterness of these betrayals more deeply even than the direct harms inflicted by perpetrators.

the suffering of traumatized people is a matter not only of individual psychology but also, always, of social justice.

I argue that relationships of dominance and subordination are incompatible with justice, which must be based on principles of trust and fairness that are found only in relationships of mutuality.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

Courage not aligned with a higher good isn't always positive—a burglar can be plenty courageous as he robs you blind.

All must answer for their deeds eventually

Lawyers are always asking me if I will cut some slack for their clients. My standard answer is this is not Let's Make A Deal.

Truth, justice...I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie. But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could make cakes without sugar. We learned how to fake things, during the war.

What did I owe you, Peter? Truth and justice? If judges would judge, if lawyers wouldn't trick, if reporters would tell what really happened instead of what sold papers. Fat

And the biggest reward was reaping the kind of life I deserved.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. Der Spieltrieb ersetzt die Religiosität, beherrscht die Börse, die Politik, die Gerichtssäle, die Pressewelt, und er ist es, der uns seit Gottes Tod mental am Leben hält.

Das Recht ist kein Kreißsaal für die Gerechtigkeit und hat niemals behauptet, einer zu sein. Das Recht besteht aus Gesetzen, Gesetze bestehen aus Wörtern, und Wörter können manches sein, sicher aber nicht gerecht.

Gerechtigkeit gibt es in der Hölle. Im Himmel herrscht Gnade.

Es wäre unsinnig, das Leben mit Warten auf die zweite Instanz zu verbringen.

Nach dem demokratischen Verständnis muss der Maßstab jeder Aburteilung abstrakt sein. Das folgt aus dem Verbot von Einzelfallgesetzen. [...] Wozu sollte das Abstrakte uns dienen, wenn nicht als Maßstab für Aburteilungen?

Es [gibt] vielleicht pragmatische Urteile, nicht aber pragmatische Gerechtigkeit.

O]b dies das eigentliche Ende des Gefangenendilemmas sei: wenn Richter und Angeklagte sich in die Arme fielen, um gemeinsam über einen Repräsentanten der alten Ordnung zu spotten.

Seiner Erfahrung nach wurden die schlimmsten Übel auf der Welt nicht durch böse Menschen bewirkt. Von denen gab es in Wahrheit erstaunlich wenige. Viel gefährlicher waren Leute, die sich im Recht glaubten. Sie waren ungeheuer zahlreich, und sie kannten keine Gnade.