{"quotes":[{"text":"When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["america","americanism","despotism","law","legal-system","men","police","police-state","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","rule-of-law","social-change","social-commentary","social-justice","social-norms","social-psychology","society","society-s-increasing-stupidity","state","surveillance","surveillance-society"],"id":64994,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bribes","connections","corrupt","corruption","crime","crimes","equality","fairness","favors","get-away-with-crimes","guilty","inequality","injustice","judicial-system","justice","legal-system","politics","slanted","truth","truth-and-justice","unjust","wealthy","world"],"id":68549,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["crime","enforce","enforcement","enforcing","enforcing-laws","formally","high","law","laws","legal-system","low","not","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-procedural","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","rate","report","reported","reporting","reports","result","results","results","statistical-analysis","statistics","statistics"],"id":72560,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within which you are then going to produce the cars and the food?","author":"David D. Friedman","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","freedom","laissez-fare","law","legal","legal-system","libertarian","liberty","non-aggression-principle","politics","rational","statism","system","voluntaryism"],"id":89693,"author_id":"David+D.+Friedman"},{"text":"For me, taking the sort of dry principles of the law and bringing them into contact with human beings . . . It's like you jump into hyperspace. And everything that's dull about the books and the theory becomes provocative.","author":"Michael Ponsor","tags":["judge","justice","lawyer","legal-system","legal-thrillers"],"id":89696,"author_id":"Michael+Ponsor"},{"text":"Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.","author":"Howard Zinn","tags":["constitution","democracy","government","justice","law-school","legal-system","subversion"],"id":93433,"author_id":"Howard+Zinn"},{"text":"Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["common","corporate","corporate-culture","corporate-greed","corporate-influence","corporate-world","corporation","corporations","corporatism","corrupted","corrupted-politicians","decades","few","legal","legal-system","lobbying","masses","people","political","political-science","realize","system","systems","very"],"id":125092,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.","author":"John Pipkin","tags":["fiction","law","legal-system","novel"],"id":151252,"author_id":"John+Pipkin"},{"text":"I’ll take what’s behind door number three did not work too well in the modern justice system, which was all system and no justice.","author":"Kenneth Eade","tags":["justice","legal-system"],"id":157581,"author_id":"Kenneth+Eade"},{"text":"Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["companies","company","corrupt","corrupt-politics","corruption","corruption-politics","corruption","law","legal","legal-system","masses","masses","own","protect","protection","protective","require","sick","sickly","sickness","utility","worker","worker-rights","workers"],"id":203346,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}