Legal System Quotes

Legal System Quote of the day

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of Whole Lotta Love.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

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.

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

The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense.

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on.

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious.

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents.

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.

The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.

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

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

No truth, no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.

It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them.

The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.

When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.

At the end of the day you are your own lawmaker

Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.