Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

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

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

The trouble today is that we have too many laws.

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

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

The law is cruel.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

What is crucial is there be laws.

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

One Law for the Lion and the Ox is oppression.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol…

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.

Where there are the most laws, there is the most injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

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

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

We all must follow the rule of law, not the rule of aldermen.