“It is unfortunate that calling 911 may result in an incompetent or corrupt police officer being sent to you.”
“The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less people will cooperate with them.”
“I see an unexpected police stop as an opportunity to gather information on police corruption.”
“Expect to be blatantly harassed by the local utility company and corporate controlled law enforcement departments when investigating utility fraud.”
“Law enforcement ignoring crimes reported to them by the public is an illegal activity that they routinely engage in.”
“On lawyering: When the law is on your side, pound the law; when the facts are on your side, pound the facts; when neither is on your side, pound the table”
“I have one weapon, Mason said. It s a powerful weapon. But sometimes it s hard to wield it because you don t know just where to grab hold of it. What weapon is that? Della Street asked. The truth, Mason said.”
“At the end of the day you are your own lawmaker”
“Ideas about the withering away of the family found strong parallels in the political commitment to the withering away of law. The great majority of jurists shared the view that under socialism, morality and limited norms would supercede law and the state in governing social relations. A classless society would have no need of law to regulate and coerce human behavior. In the words of the jurist M. Kozlovskii, Law is born with the division of society into classes and it dies with the death of class society.”
“Would you approach a crazy person with a loaded gun? Well, that is exactly what you are doing with some police officers when you approach them.”
“ما هو القانون ؟ هل ما يوجد في الكتب، أم يُطبق بالفعل ، ويتبعه المجتمع؟ أم أنَّ القانون هو ما يجب تطبيقه و اتباعه ، سواء كان في الكتب أو لم يكن ، وإن كانت الأمور تسير على ما يرام أما لا ؟”
“Hiçbir ülkede hiçbir yasa iyi değildir. Nedeni apaçık ortada: Yasalar zamanına, yerine, gereksinmelere, olanaklara göre yapılmıştır.”
“As soon as you say, I m going to use the legal system to impose my will on you, you re buying into a lie, schlichtmann said. You ll get chaos, and the system will dissapoint you. You ll get decision-making that only makes sense in Bedlam. We think the legal system is there for us, but it s not. It s there only for itself.”
“A state which savagely represses or persecutes sections of its people cannot in my view be regarded as observing the rule of law, even if the transport of the persecuted minority to the concentration camp or the compulsory exposure of female children on the mountainside is the subject of detailed laws duly enacted and scrupulously observed.”
“I am far more fearful of the police than I am of North Korea.”
“She raised her voice, reminding him that he was a doctor, that his first priority was to help the sick, and he shot back that helping the sick was subject to the law, too; it wasn t just every man for himself.”
“There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher. - Malcolm Fade”