legal system

At the end of the day you are your own lawmaker

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents. . . Police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges. . . Are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verbal (the truth). But, la realized (reality) differs.

— Martin Guevara Urbina

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

— Howard Zinn

Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.

— Steven Magee

Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.

— DaShanne Stokes

For me, taking the sort of dry principles of the law and bringing them into contact with human beings. . . It's like you jump into hyperspace. And everything that's dull about the books and the theory becomes provocative.

— Michael Ponsor

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

— Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

— Abraham Lincoln

I’ll take what’s behind door number three did not work too well in the modern justice system, which was all system and no justice.

— Kenneth Eade

I shall always attribute my uncertain start in New Zealand to the fact that I was introduced too early to what is knows as the 'five o'clock swill'. The phrase has, when you consider it, a wonderful pastoral - one might almost say idyllic - ring to it. It conjures up a picture of fat but hungry porcine, all freshly scrubbed, eagerly and gratefully partaking of their warm mash from the horny but kindly hands of the jovial farmer, a twinkling eyed son of the soil. Nothing could be further from the truth. The five o'clock swill is the direct result of New Zealand's imbecilic licensing laws. In order to prevent people getting drunk the pubs close at six, just after the workers leave work. This means they have to leave their place of employment, rush frantically to the nearest pub, and make a desperate attempt to drink as much beer as they can in the shortest possible time. As a means of cutting down drunkenness, this is quite one of the most illogical deterrents I have come across.

— Gerald Durrell