William Shenstone Quotes

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 !

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

And Justice for Some

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! – and listens to their testimony.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

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

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

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

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.

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

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.