Eric Schneiderman Quotes

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.

Too often reform involves the mechanics of change rather than the underlying values.

If all the collaborators were removed from their posts in bureaucracies, industries and utilities, the machinery of society would grind to a halt. Punishment of the guilty had to be balanced by other interests. Too much zeal would have made the rebuilding of societies impossible.

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

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

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

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

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.

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

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

Shall any man be above Justice. Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice. When great crimes were committed I am for punishing the principal as well as the Coadjutors

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

I want no mercy. I want justice, justice, justice.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

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