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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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Justice, Law & Crime

Justice and law are not the same things. Get to know many different views above them, how it feels to be on trial and of course about lawyers - here and there with a little wink...
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Crime is simply a convenient monosyllable which we apply to what happens when the brain and the heart come into conflict and the brain is defeated.
Arnold Bennett
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor
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Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.
Judge Sturgess
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Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
Judge Learned Hand
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An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain — the equality of all men.
Ignazio Silone
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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
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Obert Frost
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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs.
Unknown
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Justice is incidental to law and order.
John Edgar Hoover
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Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.
Edgar Argo
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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
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Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Erik Pepke
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No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.
Isaac Rosenfeld
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Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments.
Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson
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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
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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
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
Lord Halifax
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It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
Unknown
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
The more laws the more offenders.
Thomas Fuller
Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.
Unknown
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
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Law never made men a whit more just.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you don't know there's a trampoline in the room, you're not going to dust the ceiling for prints.
From the television show Law & Order
A certain witty advocate, Marchand, observed: "One would risk being disgusted if one saw politics, justice, and one's dinner in the making."
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.
John Godfrey Saxe
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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Ambrose Bierce
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Charles Evans Hughes
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The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
William Shakespeare
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
Abel Hermant
When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation.
Vanya Cohen
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There are many things the law does not forbid, which nevertheless it silently condemns.
Latin saying
Men sin and the law punishes; the law sins and the devil rewards.
James Lendall Basford
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I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Tom Clark
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
Will Rogers
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.
William Ernest Hocking
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
The sun is but a little swinging ball; The hills are tiny, and the seas are small; The sky is not so lofty, after all. But see! This man we're hanging—in him lies, No matter what the guilt for which he dies, A living soul, and who can guess its size?
Mary Carolyn Davies
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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
Edie Cantor
Legislative acts murder more men than the assassin.
James Lendall Basford
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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.
Anatole France
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