Justice - The Right Thing?

Justice – The Right Thing?

If fairness is the backbone of the judicial system, then the system is broken. There is nothing fair about convicting the wrong man, or meting out punishment that doesn't fit the crime, or accepting crime without punishment, or handing down punishment without crime. The system has fallen between the twin pillars of justice and rights, fracturing its spine in the process.

This unfairness, or injustice, is caused In part by straightforward corruption. But mostly it can be explained by confirmation bias. This is the tendency for people to seek, interpret and remember information that confirms their preconceptions. A confirmation bias happens when people give more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis and undervalue evidence that could disprove it. This bias is usually unconscious, nearly always entrenched.

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The powerful and privileged are always innocent. They have the law on their side. They have a clear conscience because they buy their virtue from others. Like buying carbon credits. Another lie. You can't undo your bad deeds, you don't want to stop them, so you put them on someone weaker. That's justice according to the law of nature.'

JC

'The innocent feel guilt, the guilty feel nothing.'

Estonian Movie

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.'

Thomas Pynchon

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Weasel

Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

William Gaddis

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

Anatole France

One witness is no witness.

[Unus testis, nullus testis]

A principle of evidence that the uncorroborated evidence of a single witness will be discounted.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Alexander Graham Bell

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence.; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

Michael Sandel

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used . . . He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties.

Michael Sandel

I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.

Sonia Sotomayor

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Emmeline Pankhurst

The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The course of justice often prevents it.

Edward Counsel

Many remark justice is blind; pity those in her sway, shocked to discover she is also deaf.

David Mamet

Lifehack

Isn't it just as much the duty of the police to free the innocent, as to bring the guilty to justice?

Susanne Alleyn

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

James Anthony Froude