Charles Peguy Quotes

''Corruption is corruption -- it cannot be excused and it cannot be overlooked

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort—as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.

What are kingdoms without justice but large bands of robbers?

He that buyeth Magistracy, must sell justice.

The government is so brave that it dares to arrest, capture and punish Muslim leaders and activists. But officials do not have the courage to capture those engaged in corruption or the gambling mafia, who, destroy the country's moral structure

You have seen for a long time the great disorder in the world caused by these crimes. It is so bad in some of your provinces, I am told, and you are so weak in the administration of justice, that one can hardly go along the road by day or night without being attacked by robbers; and whether at home or abroad one is in danger of being despoiled either by force or fraud.

In all governments fear is recognized as one of the grounds for the enforcement of law. In even the freest nations and under the highest form of civilization the public opinion that administers law makes its demand partly in the interest of essential right, partly with the instinct of self-preservation against the forces of evil, and partly for the punishment of wrong. Punishment in itself is not reformatory; it is retributive; it is deterrent; it plays upon fear.

The ruler will be interrogated not only about his own unjust deeds but also about those of his staff

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

We do have the best justice system in the world—in theory. The problem is that it is run by human beings. Human beings make mistakes

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

It doesn't matter whether you're guilty or not in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.