Quotes on justice
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
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Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
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Ignazio Silone Quotes
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
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Henry Ford Quotes
Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
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David Dudley Field Quotes
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
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Charles Evans Hughes Quotes
Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.
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Justinian I Quotes
The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Lao-tzu Quotes
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.
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Emma Goldman Quotes
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Mae West Quotes
I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
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Tom Clark Quotes
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Earl Warren Quotes
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
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Abel Hermant Quotes
The more laws the more offenders.
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Thomas Fuller Quotes
Law never made men a whit more just.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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Jesse Jackson Quotes
Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments.
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Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson Quotes
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
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Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge.
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Author Unknown Quotes
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
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Bob Enyart Quotes
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
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Keith Richards Quotes
The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Anatole France Quotes
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Robert Frost Quotes
Poverty is the mother of crime.
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Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute.
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Edison Haines Quotes
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
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Remy de Gourmont Quotes
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.
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Edward Dahlberg Quotes
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
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Howard Scott Quotes
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.
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Welsh Proverb Quotes
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
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James Bryce Quotes
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.
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William Ernest Hocking Quotes
Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.
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Edgar Argo Quotes
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
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Lord Halifax Quotes
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
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Max Stirner Quotes
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Edmund Burke Quotes
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
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Lady Marguerite Blessington Quotes
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men - and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort - as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.
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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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Norm Crosby Quotes
Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.
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African Proverb Quotes
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
One of irony's greatest accomplishments is that one cannot punish the wrongdoing of another without committing a wrongdoing himself.
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Anonymous Quotes
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
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Lenny Bruce Quotes
Hug a police officer. It's the law!
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Author Unknown Quotes
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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Aristotle Quotes
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Edmund Burke Quotes
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
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Edmund Burke Quotes
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.
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Emma Goldman Quotes
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
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Peter Kropotkin Quotes
Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
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Wendell Phillips Quotes
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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Frank Zappa Quotes