I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham LincolnTags: justice mercy forgiveness clemency legal-system mandatory-sentences
I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
Neil GaimanTags: justice legal-system death-penalty reasonable-doubt criminal-law justice-system
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Abraham LincolnTags: humour definitions legal-system
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.
Howard ZinnTags: justice democracy government constitution legal-system subversion law-school
But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.
Howard ZinnTags: injustice power justice law privilege discord legal-system
Spring had come finally and after much hesitation, to Lincoln's Inn Fields and there were daffodils out upon the green grass and gilly-flowers blooming in the window-boxes of the ground floor sets. This being Lincoln's Inn, where an air of general severity prevails, they did so with an unconscionable meekness, as if they feared that some legal eminence- Mr Crabbe perhaps- would descend in wrath from his chambers and present them with a writ for unlicensed blossoming or occupying too great a proportion of space.
D.J. TaylorTags: humour legal-system
Loyalty in the legal world is distorting its own peculiar sense of reality. Loyalty is the legal world's gravity: it holds that world together; it is omnipotent; it cannot be seen but its effects are observable; it can be a powerful force of destruction. As it grows stronger and more powerful, one can only hope such a strange world will be ultimately crushed by its own “weight.
TheKeyAuthorTags: corruption legal-system
When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.
Tiffany MadisonTags: politics men society america state social-commentary law social-justice police police-state social-change americanism legal-system despotism surveillance surveillance-society social-norms society-s-increasing-stupidity rule-of-law politics-of-the-united-states social-psychology
Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past's future.
Jackson BurnettTags: justice law jurisprudence lawyers retribution legal-system crime-and-punishment
The Truth about America’s Silicon Valley-
Angels in the Silicon
Riveting and insightful regarding progressivism and the social upheavals living in the Silicon Valley.-
John Yoo, UC Berkeley Constitutional Lawyer, novelist, and public servant
Tags: globalization legal-system family-drama technological-evolution
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