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Nobody does good to men with impunity.
I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It
Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.
Unable to suspect others, unable to believe in others, one would to live in a suspended state, a state of bankrupt human relations, as if one were looking into a mirror that reflects nothing.
Justice by any and all means necessary.
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Question - What is justice, stripped of appearances?
Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.
A guilty conscience has nowhere to hide
Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.
Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
Justice?
You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.
Apathy.
The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?
With impunity the thief will steal until his thieves' hand isn't cut.
Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime
A sense of duty imprisons you.
The lack of stringent laws and the inefficient prosecution of
perpetrators have made it increasingly difficult for victims and their
families to get the justice they deserve.
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Tremble, thou wretch,
That hast within thee undivulged crimes
Unwhipped of justice.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Guilt requires absolution
What was the need for law enforcement when it held victims more accountable than the criminals?
A phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.
An eye for an eye.Eye-- Belle Aurora
The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.
Where there is law there is injustice
Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.
taking unfair advantage of folks of good will and had become
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Silence is the enemy of justice.
Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
guilt force justification!
A fault is fostered by concealment.
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end ...
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired
with a love of justice against offenders.
Whether one is dealing with the state, the Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands, the heavy price of institutionalised protection is always a measure of dependence and agreement to abide by the protector's rules
To imprison yourself and then beg to be freed; this is the dynamic of a victim mindset.
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster ...
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.
It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions ...
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
A deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
A law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing;
The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
transgressions one
Victimization is about powerlessness, and justice is about amplifying the voices of those who have been silenced. Healing
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
When a government becomes unjust, honor is often found among the lawless.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of those who threaten it.
They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd ... but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one
Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.
About a year ago, an entire suburb in this man's jurisdiction turned from the police and erected a substitute agency. To all intents and purposes, several thousand people here have severed their relationship with the South African Police Service. He appears not to have noticed.
If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself
Internal conviction drives external action.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Crimes spring from fixed ideas.
There is no freedom without justice.
Punishment creates crime.
For the rival candidate, an effort must be made to destroy his chance by establishing by dint of affirmation, repetition, and contagion that he is an arrant scoundrel, and that it is a matter of common knowledge that he has been guilty of several crimes.
In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law.
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
to do wrong for the wrong's sake only
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.
Without justice, courage is weak.
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.
In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
A perception of this truth lies at the back of the universal human feeling that bad men ought to suffer. It is no use turning up our noses at this feeling, as if it were wholly base. On its mildest level it appeals to everyone's sense of justice. Once
The severest justice may not always be the best policy
In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate.
Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
No market economy can function properly without the support of legal and moral sanctions, designed to hold individual agents to their bargains, and to return the cost of misbehaviour to the one who causes it. But
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
The fatal poison of irresponsible power.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.