Charles Bowen Quotes

Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Much law, but no justice.

Effective action is always unjust.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

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

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

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Nobody wants justice.

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

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

Injustice can never be stood for.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

The law is cruel.

I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

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

It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.