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“Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.”

Children Justice Situation Equal Treatment Equal Treatment

Author:Jerry Brown

“Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.”

Justice Situation Steps Arise

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.”

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

Justice Situation Equal Delusion Flats Yardsticks Chimera

Book:Clock Without Hands

Source: Clock Without Hands

“Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."”

People Thinking Want Humans May Able Justice Human Beings Situation Dignity Defeat Occasions Humiliated I May Not Be

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.”

People Humans Enough Enjoy Justice Pay Attention Situation Deserve Praise Nevertheless Compelled

Book:Athens at war

Source: Athens at war

“We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.”

Helping Justice Situation Resources Available Department Assistance Spirals

Author:Valerie Jarrett

“Even if it remained for 10 more years, it is not the commission that will solve the justice situation, it is us, the Guatemalans, who must see if we truly want to fix our institutions, strengthen them and move forward.”

Ifs Want Years Moving Justice Situation Institutions Solve Moving Forward

Author:Otto Perez Molina