Pauline Kael Quotes

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

… injustice breeds injustice

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

And Justice for Some

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized

I look at the Supreme Court and know why Jesus wept.

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.