Consequence Quote by Robert Aumann

“If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we…

— Simone Weil

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

— John Rawls

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

— Plato

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

— Sophocles

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion”

— Alessandro Manzoni

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies…

— Emily Thorne

“When the powerless seek their own sense of control, ‘crime’ is what an unjust system produces.”

— Maurice Broaddus

“It should be clearly understood that this term “equilibrium” does not mean a static halt to action, although it conceivably could be this. More…

— J.C. Wylie