Neal Shusterman Quotes

Let the punishment fit the crime. Noxiae poena par esto.

There is no injustice without justice coming after, just as there is no night not followed by day.

I'm confident ITT will get what it deserves.

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

The law is cruel.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.