Glenn Greenwald Quotes

As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

People who are wealthy tend to be treated much more fairly in our criminal justice system.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

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.

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

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

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.

The courts, over time, have always responded to the dominant classes in our society.

For America's elite there is never accountability. That is for the rest of us.

I see no reason why big-shot crooks should go free while the poor ones go to jail.

It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than our humblest citizen, so that we can end the double standard of justice in America.

I don't know, it may be that poor people are the only ones who commit crimes, but I do know that they are the only ones who serve prison sentences.

The law courts of England are open to all men, like the doors of the Ritz Hotel.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

What is crime among the multitude is only vice among the few.

We are equal in war but not in peace.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.

To the average white man, a courthouse even in Mississippi is a place where justice is dispensed. To me, the black man, it is a place where justice is dispensed with.