Eric Ambler Quotes

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

The law is not just and is an infringement of our constitutional and treaty rights.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs.

The righteous pays for the sinner.

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

Where there are the most laws, there is the most injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.

Law and Equity [justice] which God hath joined, but which man has put asunder.

If the law supposes that ... the law is a ass – a idiot.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for a breach is more so.

Woe to those who make unjust laws.

Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

All men are equal before God, but all men are not equal before men because the differences are obvious.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

A point concerning property, which ought, for the reasons I have just mentioned, to be most speedily decided, frequently exercises the wit of successions of lawyers, for many generations .… But the question concerning a man’s life, that great question in which no delay ought to be counted tedious, is commonly determined in twenty-four hours at the utmost. It is not to be wondered at that injustice and absurdity should be inseparable companions.