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
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
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
The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect - Jimmy Carter
Our system is not one of justice, but of law - Edna Buchanan


Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress - Martin Luther King Jr
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive - Earl Warren
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion - Voltaire
Taste cannot be controlled by law - Thomas Jefferson  
Law and justice are not always the same - Gloria steinem
Justice is incidental to law and order - J. Edgar Hoover 
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public - Samuel Johnson
A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it - he merely keeps the machinery running - Lucille Kallen
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law - Thomas Hobbes
Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass - Jane Bryant Quinn
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both - George Bernard Shaw

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
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
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
The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect - Jimmy Carter
Our system is not one of justice, but of law - Edna Buchanan


Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress - Martin Luther King Jr
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive - Earl Warren
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion - Voltaire
Taste cannot be controlled by law - Thomas Jefferson  
Law and justice are not always the same - Gloria steinem
Justice is incidental to law and order - J. Edgar Hoover
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public - Samuel Johnson
A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it - he merely keeps the machinery running - Lucille Kallen
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law - Thomas Hobbes
Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass - Jane Bryant Quinn
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both - George Bernard Shaw