Ezra Furman Quotes

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

No country is fully civilized which cannot appreciate its artists. They make a contribution not just to the entertainment side of life, but to the educational, economic and spiritual sides.

People shouldn't be punished for their wisdom.

I don't necessarily believe that 'The Cosby Show' should disappear as a cultural reference, but it is. That's sad to me. I understand why. He was a man who possibly did some really bad things, and he should be punished beyond a doubt. But that show, and the impact it had not just on black culture, but culture, was amazing.

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

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.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.