166 Quotes About Justice-system

- Estou dizendo ao senhor. Sempre digo aos senhores funcionários da magistratura - prosseguiu o advogado - que não consigo vê-los sem me sentir grato, porque se eu não estou na prisão, e o senhor também, e todos nós, é apenas graças à bondade deles. Levar cada um de nós à privação dos direitos particulares e a lugares não tão distantes é a coisa mais fácil do mundo.

Vous pensiez que l'innocence suffirait à vous délivrer des filets d'un système juridique dont nous sommes toujours fiers, mais qui en ces temps de guerre est devenu une aberration.

[A] crucial part of justice is equality, and that means, among other things, experiencing criminal justice equally. People who favor policies like Stop and Frisk should experience it themselves. Justice cannot just be something that one part of society inflicts upon the other.

You can tell that things are fundamentally wrong when a statute has to be passed (in 1330) to stop galoers [jailers] refusing to accept certain prisoners. It seems they are refusing to imprison criminals who are not rich enough to bribe them.Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

ليس العيب في الانسان ....بل من يغش فكر الانسان ...... ......هشام نيبر -------------------------------------------------Not a defect in the human .... but for who cheat the human thought! ........ Hesham Nebr

I asked nothing more than to be judged justly. My act didn’t always play well with my audience, and the reviews (which came in the form of verdicts) often panned my performance. In the end, however, the theater company of justice decided that, cost what it may, that role would belong to me for all time, even after the production had finished its run, and no more performances were scheduled. Playing “out of character” had therefore been my way of choosing freedom.

The courtroom oath--"to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth"--is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath--they couldn't! Indeed, it is fair to say the American justice system is built on the foundation of not telling the whole truth. It is the job of the defense attorney--especially when representing the guilty--to prevent, by all lawful means, the "whole truth" from coming out.

No one who worked in "Corrections" appeared to give any thought to the purpose of our being there, any more than a warehouse clerk would consider the meaning of a can of tomatoes, or try to help those tomatoes understand what the hell they were doing on the shelf.

Fairness is what justice really is.