Judicial System Quotes

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“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.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.”
― Michel Foucault

“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then there will be no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Dear Police:

You can't protect me and be scared of me.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Since most law-abiding citizens had no contact with the parole system, it was not a priority with the state legislatures. And since most of the state's prisoners were either poor or black, and unable to use the system to their advantage, it was easy to hit them with harsh sentences and keep them locked up. But for an inmate with a few connections and some cash, the parole system was a marvelous labyrinth of contradictory laws that allowed the Parole Board to pass out favors.”
― John Grisham, The Last Juror

“Heaven is the only place where prayers are not made.”
― Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed

“At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.”
― Martin Guevara Urbina, Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues

“Normalize not believing everything you hear. Normalize fact checking.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Continued reliance on preemption analysis suppresses judicial attention to the discrimination and equality concerns that should be motivating courts' consideration of subfederal immigration regulations.”
― Pratheepan Gulasekaram, The New Immigration Federalism

“No legal system can maintain justice unless every participant — magisters, prosecutors, Legums, defendants, witnesses, all — risks life itself in whatever dispute comes before the bar. Everything must be risked in the Courtarena. If any element remains outside the contest and without personal risk, justice inevitably fails.
— Gowachin Law”
― Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

“A judicial system is corrupt if truth is denied the right to be a witness.”
― Suzy Kassem

“An ambiguous law is a dangerous one because it allows for the concept to be misused, neglected or worse, weaponised.”
― Aysha Taryam

“Why shouldn't two new Justices be appointed each administration? A re-elected President would then have four opportunities to appoint. At the beginning of each administration, the two oldest Justices would automatically hand in their resignations, to take effect at the President's convenience. Thus new blood would be infused into the Court at regular intervals without rancour, and the Court would normally be renewed every 16 years ... Whenever death or retirement occurred, the President would have an extra appointment.”
― Harriet Boyd Hawes, Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes

“Professional legalists were absolutely prohibited from Gowachin judicial service. "Let the people judge.”
― Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

“A question that does Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar has adopted such a route, which openly shows his involvement in politics and direct public affairs than enforcement of the law through connected institutions since his actions define his disqualification, as neutral and legitimate Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan. It is severe damage, and a violation of the judicial system; whereas, the media also stay a part of it in such a disgrace?”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“When state and government have gone, laws must go. People who speak of 'laws' in a communistic society, think perhaps only of those general rules of sensible and noble conduct which every good man finds it easy to observe. But in that case they use a wrong word. A law is a rule connected with an apparatus to compel obedience. Behind the law stand the court, the sheriff, the police, the hangman, etc., and who wants them? None, we guess.”
― Johann Joseph Most, The Social Monster: A Paper On Communism And Anarchism

“THE WORST PART OF JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS, INSTEAD OF FIGHTING AGAINST INJUSTICE, PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The law works flawlessly. We bypass it”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“I often struggle to breathe but resist thinking of the lost faith in the judicial system, incompetent politicians, and military dictators who worked hard to wheel me off into the intensive care unit (ICU) by placing my future on a ventilator. Now, my life support is a drip feed of foreign loans and emergency cash injections from lenders and friends. Have I told you my name? My name is Pakistan.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“I killed everyone in the book. But I was the only one who died in reality.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Institutional design of this new model occurred without reference to external stakeholders or any policy deliberative process such as consultation exercises or policy papers.”
― Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland

“Judiciary, politicians and establishment have worked hard to wheel off my spirit into the intensive care unit by placing me future on ventilator. My name is Pakistan.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Nevertheless, Pakistan is going through a systematic collapse of state institutions one after the other which has emanated from bad governance, corruption, and lack of discipline.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“But, I don’t need to believe in my innocence. I just am innocent.”
“Not to the world out there you’re not.”
― Stephen Nothum, Teething and Other Tales From the American Dystopia