Quotes About Justice

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public.

It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights.

Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.

To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships.

Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.