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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, read more
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy read more
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that read more
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my read more
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. read more
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Justice is the truth in action.
Justice is the truth in action.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, read more
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies
under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.