Khalil Gibran Quotes

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

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

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

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

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

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

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.

Hypocrisy is a fearful evil, and every thing which has a tendency to produce it should be avoided.

Some voices are calling on America to circle the wagons. Some are even saying that our enemies do worse, so we should respond in kind. The problem here is that this is America. This is a constitutional republic based on the rule of law and equal respect for all persons. We can’t pretend that we can bend the rules any which way. We made the rules for ourselves. We have to live by them

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.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

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

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.

The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people. Like, take the law that says you can't go into someone else's houseI have a house, so, hey, I like that law. The guy without a house-what's he think of it? Stay out in the rain, schnook.That’s what the law means to him

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.