Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

'Reversible Errors' is about the limits of the law to define who committed ultimate evil, to define what ultimate evil is, to allow the million arbitrary factors to make this a meaningful punishment, and finally to say, 'Are we really accomplishing what we wanted to accomplish? Are those anxieties relieved?' I don't think so.

A … trial in Cambodia cannot be completely impartial, because there is too much corruption.

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

To the average white man, a courthouse even in Mississippi is a place where justice is dispensed. To me, the black man, it is a place where justice is dispensed with.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

And Justice for Some

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

Magistrates received more [fees] if they returned a Negro to slavery than if they ruled that he was free.

In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized

My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Redemption is the speciality of other authors, male and female.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

The other bands are just as bad, but we go to jail more.

The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple fact that someone convicted of the same crime is more likely to face the death penalty if they are black.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become torturers by virtue of their very morality, and in so doing, while claiming to be advocates of God, they act as instruments of the devil.