166 Quotes About Justice-system

I saw the prison as an institution within which a proportion of the unproductive population of late capitalist societies could be housed, controlled and conveniently forgotten.

You think that enough?” said I. “Yes,” said he, “and moreover it is all that we can do. If in addition we torture the man, we turn his grief into anger, and the humiliation he would otherwise feel for his wrong-doing is swallowed up by a hope of revenge for our wrong-doing to him.

Justice should be blind, but not blind with greed. The people must have faith in the fundamental fairness and impartiality of our system of justice if we are to have order in our society. Those who make a mockery of it must not go unpunished.

Justice doesn't mean absence of injustice, it means the presence of human will to stand up to injustice.

Justice always finds the void that seeks it. Justice is a traveler through time.

A professor of mine used to say justice is blind,' he said, 'but she also can't see worth a shit.

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

Hard edges make truth and by necessity, truth is unbending. Unlike truth’s absolutism, justice is a qualitative substance; it is not an absolute tenet. Justice must be pliable in order to meet the needs of more than one person or one group. Justice goes against separation; it is a form of human superglue. Justice is what binds us as people. No human is capable of measuring out or dispensing unqualified justice. Justice naturally seeks conciliation and demands compromise.

The court system is the graveyard where Trump's fanciful delusions will be laid to rest.