Jules Renard Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.

Effective action is always unjust.

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.

Sometimes the world didn't feel fair enough. Everything feels fair on the stage.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

Nobody wants justice.

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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.

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

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.