JUSTICE AND RESEARCH RELATED QUOTATIONS

Compiled by William M. Holmes, Ph.D. Last Update: 9-25-2011

KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH



"A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth." John Dryden



"Facts are stubborn things."  Anon. Proverb



"'For example' is not proof.  Jewish Proverb



"The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."  Thomas Huxley



"The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein



"Though a lie be swift, truth overtakes it."  Anon.



"Learning without wisdom is a load of books on an ass's back" Japanese Proverb



"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." Marston Bates.



"It is the theory which decides what can be observed." Albert Einstein



"Statistics are no substitute for judgment."  Henry Clay



"When you've eliminated every hypothesis but one, then the remaining hypothesis must be true, however improbable."  Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conon Doyle)



"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions."  Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Crude Classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life."  H.G. Wells





 JUSTICE 



"If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."  Albert Einstein



"Its over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cuts the wrong man's head off."  Charles Dickens



"He that plays his money ought not to value it."  Anon.



"A few honest men are better than numbers."  Oliver Cromwell



"The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses." Bertrand Russell



"The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself."  Henry Miller



"Injustice anywhere hurts justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.



"Show me a liar and I'll show you a thief."  Anon.



"He who hunts man long enough and enjoys it will lose the taste to hunt

anything else." Ernest Hemmingway



"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier." George Bernard

Shaw



"We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas."  Mona Caird



"Guns are like tennis shoes.  They go everywhere you go. Everywhere."

Anonymous teen interviewed by Minnesota Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis

Center.



"Far better it is to dare mighty deeds, win glorious triumphs, even though

checkered by failure, than to take rank with those who neither suffer much

no enjoy much because they know not victory nor defeat."  Teddy Roosevelt



"Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:/ the first is law; the last,

prerogative."  Dryden



"Contempt will sooner kill an injury than revenge."  Anon.



"Who steals my purse, steals trash...but he that filches from me my good 

name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed."

(Shakespeare, Othello, Act III)



"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green." Francis Bacon



"The grievances and satisfactions of violence have so reinforced one another

that we have become a rather bloody-minded people in both action and reaction. 

We are likely to remain so as long as so many of us think that violence is an

ultimate solution to social problems."  Ted Robert Gurr and Hugh Davis

Graham



"Till the infallibility of human judgments shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death." Marquis de Lafayette



"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent." Isaac Asimov



"The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution."  Sir Walter Raleigh 



"When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty."  Will Durant



"Every man's the son of his own deeds." Miguel Cervantes

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