All of us who care about the world going forward would like to engage the government more.

God's justice, as Desmond Tutu insisted, is not retributive but restorative. It is natural that many do not understand this, because "God's love, resisted, is felt as wrath.

You touch that young woman, and I will see you hang.

They didn't kill the one they judged anymore. They left them broken and wounded.

So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.

I choose to ally myself against any force which brings humiliation upon humankind.

Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment.

Rules are often an excuse to ignore compassion.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.