Philip Massinger Quotes

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.

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

You have to accept that Batman is a fact of life in Gotham City, and on top of that, you have to accept that somehow this city manages to function with a police force that's 90% corrupt.

A … trial in Cambodia cannot be completely impartial, because there is too much corruption.

He that buyeth Magistracy, must sell justice.

Woe unto them ... who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

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 !

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Hell is full of high court judges.

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.