“A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.”
Lucille Kallen
“The more laws, the less justice.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
Confucius
“Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass”
Jane Bryant Quinn
“Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice”
Bertrand Russell
“This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.