Eric Schneiderman Quotes

And Justice for Some

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

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

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

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

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

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

One Law for the Lion and the Ox is oppression.

I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

What is this life by which you, who exist still incomplete, count for more than I, who exist complete already? What is this respect for you that removes respect for me? What is this right of yours to exist that takes no account of my right to exist?

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.