Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

The law is cruel.

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

The source of justice was the fear of injustice.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

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.

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Effective action is always unjust.

If we can't have justice, then nobody will have justice.

Shall any man be above justice? Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice?

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

Every law must be just in every part of it, but if the penalty annexed be unjust, how can it be held forth as a just law?

If there is to be justice in the world, American must create it.

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

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

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.