Great Legal Quotes on Justice
Janabeth Taylor pointed me to some quotes on justice. These seem more applicable to a criminal law case, but they were still entertaining. Some of the quotes are listed below:
The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. ~Clarence Darrow, 1936
Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~Judge Sturgess
People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made. ~Otto Bismark
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. ~Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ~Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe
