Robert Gottlieb Quotes

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

Hell and the law courts are always open.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

Prison works.

I've never been in trouble with the law.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per law.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.

The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.

I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice.

Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over the world recognize that these bad people, these criminals who committed crimes like that will be shown to the courts, and the people will have justice, and that we all shall work together to prevent these bad people from hurting us again.

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!