Jeanine Pirro Quotes

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

The law is cruel.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

There are reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just.

They got the judges / They got the lawyers / They got the jury rolls / They got the law / They don’t come by ones. / They got the sheriffs / They got the deputies / They don’t come by twos. / They got the shotguns / They got the rope / We git the justice / In the end / And they come by tens.

The system of death-penalty justice is compromised and inequitable.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

In his over-anxiety not to offend the powerful who have done wrong, President Wilson scrupulously refrains from saying one word on behalf of the weak who have suffered wrong.

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.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.