Judy Sheindlin Quotes

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

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

If I want to call somebody's name out, I want to make sure they've done wrong.

You can't do people wrong. You can't do people dirty or put people's life in jeopardy and expect to walk away freely and just continue to live this happy and prosperous life. That's not how the universe and the way of life works.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

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

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

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

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

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

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.

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 !

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.