David Dinkins Quotes

if you do countenance those that are transgressors of the law you are in the same fact.

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Most people have kind of done something that could put them in jail at least for one night.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

As AI applications engage in behavior that, were it done by a human, would constitute a crime, courts and other legal actors will have to puzzle through whom to hold accountable and on what theory.

Shall any man be above Justice. Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice. When great crimes were committed I am for punishing the principal as well as the Coadjutors

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

It would depend on whether a judge of the Supreme Court came down heads or tails.

No thank you, I don't engage in criminal practice.

It is worse than a crime. It is a blunder. C'est plus qu'un crime. C'est une faute.

Robbery is a crime; rape is a crime; murder is a crime; treason is a crime and crime must be punished. The law provides for it, and the courts are open. Treason must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished.

The compulsions of the law seem to have been provided for those only who require compulsions

If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.

You have seen for a long time the great disorder in the world caused by these crimes. It is so bad in some of your provinces, I am told, and you are so weak in the administration of justice, that one can hardly go along the road by day or night without being attacked by robbers; and whether at home or abroad one is in danger of being despoiled either by force or fraud.

Every law must be just in every part of it, but if the penalty annexed be unjust, how can it be held forth as a just law?