Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

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

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

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.

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

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

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

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.

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

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

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

Somewhere, sometime, somehow, some way these people will have to answer for their acts.

I said what I said, but I shouldn’t have said it.

We will that every man above 12 years make oath that he will neither be a thief nor cognizant of theft