12 quotes found
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.”
“Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?”
“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.”
“Fair is irrelevant. This is the law it has nothing to do with justice.”
“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”
“No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institutionbut only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.”
“A faraway-father is distant from his children; not necessarily in geography, but sociallyeither by choice or by force. Our country has many fathers who are figuratively-forced far and away from the...”
“When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function.”
“The Defendant: I am pleading guilty your honors but I'm doing it because I think it would be a waste of money to have a trial over five dollars worth of crack. What I really need is a drug program ...”
“Fair is irrelevant. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.”
“No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution—but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.”
