Quotes on Justice

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. ~Norm Crosby


A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~Robert Frost


This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Justice is incidental to law and order. ~John Edgar Hoover


Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. ~Edgar Argo


Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ~Thomas Szasz


Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. ~Erik Pepke


The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. ~Author Unknown


No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. ~Isaac Rosenfeld


Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. ~Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson


I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. ~Keith Richards


There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. ~Grover Whalen


In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. ~Lenny Bruce


Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. ~Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals


If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. ~Lord Halifax


It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. ~Author unknown, quoted in Sunshine magazine


Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~Edmund Burke


But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. ~Frederic Bastiat, The Law


The more laws the more offenders. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732


It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. ~Mae West


Law never made men a whit more just. ~Henry David Thoreau