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Quotes About Justice

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~ Aesop
Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
~ Bo Burnham
If Spiderman was real, and I was a criminal, and he shot me with his web, I would say, "Dude, thanks for the hammock."
~ Mitch Hedberg
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
~ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
~ Jeremy Bentham
We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.
~ Martin Luther
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.
~ Steven Wright
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
~ H. L. Mencken
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
~ Quentin Crisp
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?
~ C. S. Lewis
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
~ George W. Bush
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
~ Mark Twain
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
~ Michael Badnarik
In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'
~ Robin Williams
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
~ Oscar Wilde
Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.
~ Oscar Wilde
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
~ Robert E. Sherwood
Justice will prevail!
~ Tsugumi Ohba
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
~ Allen Tucker
Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
~ Steven Wright
Throwing acid is wrong... in some people's eyes.
~ Jimmy Carr
Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful.
~ Bill Watterson
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
~ Bertolt Brecht