Legal Bias Quotes

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.

I don't care what the law is, tell me who the judge is.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law

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.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?

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

The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.

[Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's been doing drugs for 20 years and functioning for 20 years, and in those 20 years there've been hundreds of people who've been getting high constantly and behaved very destructively and have not been arrested. Robert's real problem is he gets caught.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

Neither the king nor any servant of his shall themselves cause a lawsuit to be begun, or hush up one that has been brought before them by some other man.

I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from the bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear.

Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

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.

The modern military justice system is by design a body incapable of blind justice.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

The Supreme Court has increasingly come down on the side of big corporations instead of workers and middle-class families.

Laws go where money pleases.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.