Douglas Adams Quotes

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

The more laws, the less justice.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Courts are for people to get help, not just to shrink dockets.

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.

Unprincipled men inflict injuries on others, because the laws are practically not valid against all classes. A transgressor who belongs to the wealthy classes is not punished for his injustice, while a poor man, who does not understand business, undergoes the legal penalty, that is if he does not depart this life before the trial, so long is the course of lawsuits protracted, and so much money is expended on them. The climax of the misery is to have to pay in order to obtain justice. For no one will give a court to the injured man unless he pay a sum of money to the judge and the judge's clerks

The majority of [New York[ Supreme Court judges do not really work. Some of them are lazy. Of course there are a few who really work, but as for many of them, I would not give them $1700 a year as law clerks not to mention the $17,500 they receive. They and equally lazy lawyers are the primary cause of the congestion in our courts.

The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.

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

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.

The problem is that we have evil people who try to skirt the laws. And that's the problem.

From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.

I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it's kind of a Catch-22. On one hand, there's so much process, procedure and mess caused by the legal profession. But on the other hand, the only way to sort through all that process, procedure and mess is through the legal profession.

God bless the Florida Supreme Court.

Progress is the mother of problems.

Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Everywhere I look, I see the possibilities of what America could be. But we can't solve any of these problems by relying on the politicians who created them.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.