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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Justice is revenge.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

Justice is truth in action.

By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust.

Fairness is what justice really is.