Aesop Quotes

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress

People who make off with large sums of money escape justice or get insignificant sentences, while the thief who steals a handbag … gets six years…. In the United States, Nixon quit for far less.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

The more laws, the less justice.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

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

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

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