Subjective Justice Quotes

Justice is determined by the personality of the judges.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

They regard as just whatever they believe to be advantageous.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

'Justice' actually means different things to different people.

Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.

This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.

People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those competing visions and to impose consequences as a result. When you think of it that way, it's a little bit startling, because we want to believe that there is one truth and, therefore, one justice, whereas, if you have practiced law as long as I have, you realize that there is actually a range of acceptable outcomes.