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“Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the same. It serves them right.”
“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
“Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth.”
“Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldnt quite see in my mind, and certainly couldnt love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful just deserts, which I thought...”
“Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?”
“For this new-married man approaching here,Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'dYour well defended honour, you must pardonFor Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--Being criminal, in d...”
“LA VIDA NO ES LA QUE VIVIMOS.LA VIDA ES EL HONOR Y EL RECUERDO.POR ESO MAS VALE MORIRCON EL PUEBLO VIVO,Y NO VIVIRCON EL PUEBLO MUERTO.Life is not as it seems, Life is pride and personal history.Th...”
“He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. "It spreads like a disease," he said. "And it's infinitely more deadly when the law is disregarded by men pretendi...”
“A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.”
“The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astu...”
“Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?”
“. . . we are all giving our lives away--the only question is, to what? We spend ourselves on television, money, power, sex, leisure, adventure, and fame. They are a bad investment. If we look for l...”
“No injustice ever takes place in this universe. Whatsoever happens is always just and right, for there is no human being sitting up there doing either justice or injustice. The universe is ruled by...”
“Let the one who seeks justice be just.”
“Lamenting the vagaries of fate may leave us with a galling sense of helpless frustration, which many escape by transforming the tragedy of the human condition into the specific sins of specific soc...”
“Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.”
“However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always. Our children cannot dream unless they live, they cannot live unless they are nourished, and who else will feed th...”
“A trial, it often came down to who had the best story.”
“To understand the world is never a matter of simply recording our immediate perceptions. Understanding inescapably involves reasoning. We have to 'read' what we feel and seem to see, and ask what t...”
“...people called it justice, but prison doesn't make everything better," he observes. "Just because someone pays a price doesn't mean they didn't steal from you to begin with.”
