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"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws"
Tacitus, Historian
"Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law"
Solon, Statesman
"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it"
Karl Kraus, Writer
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes"
Stanley Kubrick, Director
"Swift justice demands more than just swiftness"
Potter Stewart, Judge
"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health, and other treatment programs all reduce recidivism significantly"
Bobby Scott, Politician
"Justice is like a train that is nearly always late"
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet
"The tyrant grinds down his slaves, and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them"
Emily Bronte, Novelist
"The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men"
James Buchanan, President
"The greatest power is not money power, but political power"
Walter Annenberg, Businessman
"The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity"
Naomi Klein, Journalist
"The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence"
Byron White, Judge
"From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen"
Robert Nozick, Philosopher
"Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned"
Samuel Dash, Lawyer
"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice"
Kurt Huber, Professor
"The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men"
James Harrington, Philosopher
"Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?"
John Lewis, Politician
"If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started"
Michael D. Barnes, Politician
"Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly"
Terry Waite, Author
"Clever tyrants are never punished"
Voltaire, Writer
"We live in a welfare state society - one that is already bloated and overburdened. We cannot continue to absorb and support an endless stream of people who will inevitably need legal residents to subsidize their lives"
Charlie Kirk, Politician
"Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"I hate victims who respect their executioners"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change"
Muhammad Ali, Athlete
"The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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