Bob Dylan Quotes

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

A … trial in Cambodia cannot be completely impartial, because there is too much corruption.

I think some parts of the American justice system have gone haywire.

The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

Justice is a fading light.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

The death penalty as been a gross failure. Beyond its horror and incivility, it has neither protected the innocent nor deterred the wicked. The recurrent spectacle of publicly sanctioned killing has cheapened human life and dignity without the grace which comes from justice meted out swiftly, evenly, humanely.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

And Justice for Some

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Justice is merely incidental to law and order. Law and order is what covers the whole picture. Justice is part of it, but it can't be separated as a single thing.

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.