Unfair Laws 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.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

The laws themselves become traps and snares, in which plain honest men, who were unacquainted with logical quirks and subtleties, were catched.

Manditory minimums were almost always excessive, and they made me feel unethical, even dirty.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

Since the strength of those kinds of tyrannical governments only subsist on the very principles and means that established them, and since it is dangerous to resist and struggle against the fundamentals of a religion, as well as to try and shake the fundamental laws of a state or a republic, one must not be astonished if the wise and enlightened people comply with the general laws of a state, unfair though they may be

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Our laws are shamelessly unequal when they make the punishment for stealing away a woman's honor no greater than for the purloining of her wardrobe, or when they give the man who robs her of her character a lighter sentence than he who steals her purse would incur…

Something is terribly wrong with the tax laws of this country and the way they are enforced. So I quit.

… the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been an adviser to Trump, although he still very publicly couldn't land a job in the president's Cabinet, despite providing that counsel. And Kobach has a long history of making up facts to help him pass unfair voter suppression laws and push extreme anti-immigrant proposals.

Woe to those who make unjust laws.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just so stupid.

When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong