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I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
— John Quincy Adams
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
— Frederic Bastiat
Law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
— E.B. White
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
— Gloria Steinem
My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.
— Eric Schneiderman
It is just that there be law, but law is not justice
— Jacques Derrida
Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.
— Kevin DeYoung
You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.
— Bikram Choudhury
To be just, a law has to be flexible.
— Gloria Steinem
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
— Lydia M. Child
Neither the executive nor the legislature can act beyond the limits of the law.
— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly
There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].
— Ze'ev Jabotinsky
The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.
— Tim DeChristopher
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe
Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. — Idries Shah
There is no client as scary as an innocent man.J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962. — Michael Connelly
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Justice and vengeance get all tangled together when the law is written by a tyrant and ultimately overturned by the forces of anger and resentment.
— Robert J. Crane
Justice is the reason we have law, and law is man's feeble attempt to teach decency to others.
— Joy Ratcliff Cagle
The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
— Christopher Darden
Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.
— Robin Hobb
Truax held up a business card. Randolph "The Hammer" Tinker Attorney at Law "I nail justice in the face.
— Chris Genoa
As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice.
— Eric Schneiderman
The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.
— Rohinton Mistry
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
— Algernon Sidney
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.
— Subhas Chandra Bose
It is idle to hope for the enforcement of a law where nineteen-twentieths of the people do not believe in the justice of its provisions.
— Edmund Morris
Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.
— Charley Reese
Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order - in short, of government.
— Albert Einstein
An unjust law is no law at all.
— Augustine Of Hippo
It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
— William McIlvanney
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.
— Barack Obama
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
— John Marshall
in my four months of legal cramming I'd learned the law is full of technicalities. Technicalities are what screw up justice. Wilcox
— Frank W. Abagnale
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
— John Marshall
Never let the law interfere with justice.
— James Hickey
I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.
— Joe Biden
Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Justice is incidental to law and order.
— J. Edgar Hoover
Law and justice are not the same.
— John Connolly
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.
— Harold Pinter
A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
— Massad Ayoob
The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.
— Victor Cousin
There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
— Thomas Jefferson
An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.
— Natalya Vorobyova
Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
