Honore de Balzac Quotes

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

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

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

Impunity for the great thief, and jail for the thief who steals a loaf.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

Justice in this country is an insurance policy. It’s not something that we’re supposed to get sometimes.

The laws of most countries are far worse than the people who execute them, and many of them are only able to remain laws by being seldom or never carried into effect.

And Justice for Some

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

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

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

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

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people. Like, take the law that says you can't go into someone else's houseI have a house, so, hey, I like that law. The guy without a house-what's he think of it? Stay out in the rain, schnook.That’s what the law means to him

Strict law is often great injustice.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth