Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

One of the effects of law, then, seems to be, instead of teaching men justice, and inspiring them with a love for it, but to animate their craft, deepen their duplicity, lengthen out the labyrinths of their contrivances, and supply them with a practical villainy, of which they had, perhaps never, dreamed themselves capable.

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

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

The more laws, the less justice.

We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

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

Do not take bribes, for they blind the clear-eyed and upset the pleas of the just.

In our country the law of the strong does not prevail. The strength of the law prevails.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

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 !

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

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice which has been severely questioned.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

All my life I have fought corruption.