“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
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
Julius Caesar
“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.”
Gerry Spence
“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice”
Edmund Burke
“The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.”
Raymond Chandler
“The more laws, the less justice.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
