“The malediction is upon him even if the law does not exact it.”
“Legal redress is imperfect satisfaction for having one’s head broken with a brickbat.”
“Professors are typically in their own little worlds, doing their own thing and thinking that the laws do not apply to them.”
“Police assassinations of innocent people usually follow this routine: 1. Police officer assassinates unarmed member of the public. 2. The victims reputation is publicly trashed by the police. 3. The Internal Affairs investigation is rigged from the outset to protect the murderer. 4. Murderer is off work on full pay during the rigged investigation. 5. Murderer returns to work.”
“If justice really existed, there would be no need for law.”
“All systems are corrupt. All governments and all laws exist to benefit those in power.”
“As is well known, what characterizes both the Fascist and Nazi regimes is that they allowed the existing constitutions (the Albertine Statute and the Weimar Constitution, respectively) to subsist, and according to a paradigm that has been acutely defined as dual state - they placed beside the legal constitution a second structure, often not legally formalized, that could exist alongside the other because of the state of exception.”
“The laws vainly try to talk virtue to the mass, but it s just talk. The people who make the laws are really too biased towards evil and never carry out their fine talk -- they merely make a stab at it for the sake of appearances, that s all.”
“Justice is what the strong do the weak.”
“A court case is usually a competition to prove the innocence of the innocent … or the guilty.”
“I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.”
“Part of the genius of the rhetoric of law and order is that as a principle (rather than a practice), it can be sold as the ultimate call for equality: We all deserve the law. We all deserve order. All lives matter.”
“Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.”
“We have built a colony in a nation, not in the classic Marxist sense but in the deep sense we can appreciate as a former colony ourselves: A territory that isn t actually free. A place controlled from outside rather than within. A place where the mechanisms of representation don t work enough to give citizens a sense of ownership over their own government. A place where the law is a tool of control rather than a foundation for prosperity.”
“Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments.”
“Maybe law is closer related to art than most of us are aware of. But art and power do often stand in a strained relationship.”
“When the Scripture relates redemption to the law of God, the terms it uses are to be carefully marked. It does not say we are redeemed from the law. That would not be an accurate description and the Scripture refrains from such an expression. We are not redeemed from the obligation to love the Lord our God with all our heart and soul and strength and mind and our neighbour as ourselves. The law is comprehended in these two commandments (Matt. 22:40) and love is the fulfilling of the law (Rom. 13:10)... It would contradict the very nature of God to think that any person can ever be relieved of the necessity to love God with the whole heart and to obey his commandments. When Scripture relates redemption to the law of God it uses terms that are more specific.”