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Crime and Justice After being struck on the head by an ax, being beaten about the body with a wooden club is a positive pleasure. Chinese proverb Law is an ordinance of reason for the common good. Aquinas There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and praiseworthy. Ambrose Bierce Everyone loves justice in the affairs of others. Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. H.L. Mencken The Vatican police speak pig Latin. Cops and taxis have one thing in common ... they're never around when you need them. Justice too long delayed is justice denied. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill. Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest. Norman Douglas Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. Nietzsche Justice delayed finally be done is justifiable homicide. Ronald Gene Simmons, Arkansas mass murderer who killed 14 family members Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. We aren't here to solve the drug problem. We're here to put bad guys in jail. Veteran DEA agent Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott He who excuses himself accuses himself. French proverb Courtroom - a place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds in favor of Judas. H.L. Mencken A jury consists of 12 persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost There is one way to find out if a man is innocent: ask him. If he says yes, you know he is guilty. Groucho Marx Morality can't be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Capital punishment may not be much of a deterrent against murder, but the sight of a few corpses swinging from a scaffold might work with drug dealers. James J. Kilpatrick The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. Max Steiner A lawyer is a man who prevents someone else from getting your money. Will Rogers When a man knows he is going to be hanged in a fortnight, his mind concentrates wonderfully. Samuel Johnson A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him. Jean Giraudoux Lawyers and painters soon change white to black. There is a sleeping cop in all of us. French proverb A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Have you ever noticed right to life people are in favor of capital punishment? Gore Vidal If there were a death penalty, more people would be alive. Nancy Reagan An appeal is when you ask for one court to show its contempt for another. Finley Peter Dunne The history of correction is a graveyard of abandoned fads. The jail is for the poor, the street is for the rich. Noah Pope Man has excelled at everything except crime. Goldfinger When the President does it, that means it isn't illegal. President Richard Nixon It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just as long as you don't break any. Mae West Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Georges Clemenceau Can lawyers read bar code? I must be free My fake I.D. freeeeeees me. Frank Zappa Lawyers and tarts are the two oldest professions in the world. And we always aim to please. Horace Rumpole (John Mortimer) Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. Charles Dickens Laws were made to be broken. Christopher North Who is to guard the guards themselves? Juvenal The old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. Martin Luther King Jr. Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Richard Lovelace They told him, don't you ever come around here. Do not wanna see your face, you better disappear. Michael Jackson One hour of justice is worth a hundred of prayer. Arab proverb Lawyers are ... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. Jane Bryant Quinn Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. E.M. Cioran It's strange that men should take up crime when there's so many ways to be dishonest. Al Capone Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business. Robert Rice Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience. Roscoe Pound Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. Jean Racine The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. Jimmy Breslin He who holds the latter is as bad as the thief. It's a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. Willie Sutton The .38 service revolver is a police officer's final authority. There is more law in the end of a policeman's nightstick than any decision of the Supreme Court. Alexander Williams Here in Bogata, Columbia, you can buy yourself out of an arrest with a carton of Marlboro. American diplomat Prison is a place where all sorts of things are not there. In here, not having a knife is a death sentence. prison inmate Slums may be the breeding ground of crime but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Cyril Connolly Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2009. Revised 022606 - http://southerner.net/sitron/wis/wcrju.html  |