Legal System Quotes

“Law must never be taken as gospel – today's law may become tomorrow's crime, today's crime may become tomorrow's law.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Only the guilty survive nowadays and present themselves as innocents in the media. And they make you consider the innocents as guilty. Fascistic! The only way to fix this is to consider the guilty as innocents and the innocents as guilty.”
― Maria Karvouni, You Are Always Innocent

“Antidote to Crime (The Sonnet)

The way to a crime-free world is simple,
But it lies outside of all the legal 'n partisan muck.
Take away the guns from the kids on the street,
Put books in their hands and food in their stomach.
By the time they grow up into young adults,
The prehistoric warmongers will be in death bed.
The children whose childhood you restored,
Will all be ready to hold the reins of world stage.
Law, policy 'n all that stuff surely have their place,
But not as the antidote to crime, chaos 'n descension.
The permanent antidote to crime is education alone,
Law ‘n policy are just to ensure its true democratization.
More than trying a crime, focus on treating environment.
Feed the hungry ‘n establish education, free from any debt.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“The permanent antidote to crime is education alone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“If you cheat to win you really can't claim victory because you did not play fair. ”
― Germany Kent

“In criminal proceedings, laymen might assume it's one person versus another, but it's not—it's the state versus the defendant. That means that you, the victim, do not have anyone on your side by default, while defendants have lawyers who are eager to tear into you from all angles. You are an asset to the state's case, not the other way around.”
― Zoe Quinn, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

“When a serious felony case went to trial in a county like Monroe County, which was 40 percent black, it was not uncommon for prosecutors to exclude all African Americans from jury service. In fact, twenty years after the civil rights revolution, the jury remained an institution largely unchanged by the legal requirements of racial integration and diversity. As far back as the 1880s, the Supreme Court ruled in Strauder v. West Virginia that excluding black people from jury service was unconstitutional, but juries remained all-white for decades afterward. In 1945, the Supreme Court upheld a Texas statute that limited the number of black jurors to exactly one per case. In Deep South states, jury rolls were pulled from voting rolls, which excluded African Americans. After the Voting Rights Act passed, court clerks and judges still kept the jury rolls mostly white through various tactics designed to undermine the law. Local jury commissions used statutory requirements that jurors be "intelligent and upright" to exclude African Americans and women.

In the 1970s, the Supreme Court ruled that underrepresentation of racial minorities and women in jury pools was unconstitutional, which in some communities at least led to black people being summoned to the courthouse for possible selection as jurors (if not selected). The Court had repeatedly made clear, though, that the Constitution does not require that racial minorities and women actually serve on juries—it only forbids excluding jurors on the basis of race or gender.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Every time the cradle of justice becomes criminal, it falls upon us civilians to be justice incorruptible.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“So long as the precise letters of the law are more important than justice, there'll only be the illusion of order, but no justice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Contrary to what you may think, the legal system was neither founded upon nor designed to reflect the common decency found in normal human relationships. It primarily works like the rules for a lunatic asylum. It tries to govern people driven insane by the inflated idea of their own worth.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“I love it when a justice system becomes the justice system.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Steady and ready, Freddie," Gilbert said. "Nothing shall sway my confidence.”
― Eric Pellenin

“Today we enforce accountability, so that our future generation can act accountable out of their own free will without the support from superficial regulatory institutions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“The way to a crime-free world is simple, but it lies outside of all the legal 'n partisan muck. Take away the guns from the kids on the street, put books in their hands and food in their stomach.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Law is there to enforce punishment, that's why it's called law enforcement. Civilians are meant to stand dutybound for order, that's why it's called civic duty, my friend.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Neither law nor party loyalty will elevate the society. All my hope lies upon civilian responsibility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“The Indian legal system is a microcosm of a wider patriarchal structure.”
― Shalu Nigam

“Love is the master-key to social troubles, law is but an inferior and cheaper stand-in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“There are more things in the vastness of time and space than dreamt up in your paleolithic construct of law.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“I'm Above The Law (The Sonnet)

Yes, I am above the law,
So is every single world builder.
It's only the apes without brain who,
Are tamed by the medieval lawmaker.
If you are to be a civilized being,
It is your duty to rise above the law.
If you can't tell right from wrong,
It is common sense you lack, not law.
It is nothing but a juvenile democracy,
That is founded on spineless law-abidance.
Civilized democracy instills accountability,
What it doesn't demand is boneheaded obedience.
You have a heart, brain and spine, why not use them!
Stand up o citizen justice, and keep the law as servant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Strong rights protection is far from harmless. The proliferation of strong rights can frustrate the democratic will and erode the solidarity of communities. Judicial dominion over constitutional rights can absolve the rest of us of our responsibility to take rights seriously, leading our moral institutions to atrophy and eventually to decay. Rights can breed resentment of those who win the Constitutions favor at the expense of others”
― Jamal Greene, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart – A Renowned Legal Scholar's Paradigm-Shifting Analysis of Race, Law, and Justice

“Law is like a band-aid. Band-aids don't heal the wound, they only prevent further infection while your natural immune system does the healing. Likewise, law doesn't cure crime, it only keeps crime in check, while individual accountability treats the inhumanity that causes crime. And at some point the band-aid must come off, because, just like a body covered in band-aid is the sign of a sick person, a society covered in law is the sign of a sick species.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“They detect 'criminals' by reading thoughts, substances and movements. Mafias create fake situations accessing the mind just before sleep and the body through shooting the feet with secret weapons. A paid actor wrongly accuses.”
― Maria Karvouni, You Are Always Innocent

“Simplicity is the method by which you seek and communicate knowledge, sharpening your focus as you work through the case...”
― Francis P. Karam, The Truth Engine: Cross-Examination Outside the Box

“Winning or losing the case is the prime motive for any litigant as a party in the adversarial system because the system is built to see the issue of the complainant as a dispute rather than as an issue of social or legal wrong or as a matter of injustice. The decision pronounced by the court therefore favours one party and is often against another, when two parties are involved in a legal disagreement. Rather than viewing
the legal wrong as a matter of injustice, the courtrooms reduce the concerns of the litigants as technical matters. The courtrooms as the implementers of the laws act as valiant guardians of law and not as a protector of the rights of the victims. The entire system is built around laws and legal processes. A victim has been granted little roles or rights in the entire process.”
― Shalu Nigam

“Though courtrooms are created for the purpose of delivering justice to litigants, the litigant is seen as one who is at the receiving end of the entire system. The judges and the lawyers occupy the central position within the courtroom rather than acting as the service providers. Their subjectivities influence the process. The process, approach, and environment of the courtrooms are not litigant-friendly. The daily nitty gritty, bureaucratic procedures and technicalities observed in the courtrooms further create trouble for litigants who may lack legal knowledge or awareness and may hamper the smooth process of law. The black
and white rules of law, are clouted with the shades of the subjectivities exhibited by different actors, and the outcome or the decisions of the courts are determined by various factors apart from the legal rules.”
― Shalu Nigam

“To fight the patriarchal environment that prevails in the Indian courtrooms, there are
women who are making their mark and are utilizing the law and the legal system to make a dent in patriarchy. These courageous women are standing up against the powerful institutionalized structural imbalance and asserting their rights while showing that the Constitution, the law, and the courtrooms do not belong to a handful of judges and lawyers but belong to the people, the litigants, the poor, the marginalized, the women – to the people of the country. The system may be
powerful or corrupt but people are more powerful than the system and have the power to smash the loopholes within it.”
― Shalu Nigam

“he law is a blunt tool and though it makes tall claims of being
objective and neutral, in itself, the law is fragile and will not smash patriarchy. Rather, The courts have always favored the power structure and shielded those who are resourceful. The courtrooms, themselves as a symbol of authority, defend the values of supremacy and protect the oppressive
and regressive system. However, those on the margins with their conviction and belief in the values of democracy, justice, and the rule of law, need to shake the system. With individual or through collective action the marginalized are challenging the power structure and are compelling the state and the society to make social and political transformation at a larger level. Angela Davis said that “in a racist society it is not enough to be a non-racist. We must be anti-racist”. Similarly, here it may be derived that `in a patriarchal society, it is not enough to be a non-patriarchal. We must be anti-patriarchy’. The women with their sheer will and conviction are marching ahead to smash
patriarchy using law as an instrument of change. However, what is required is the radical interpretation of constitutional values by the courts and this should be strengthened by assuring the equal representation of women within the judiciary at all levels to open up the possibility of nondiscrimination within the patriarchal hostile settings.”
― Shalu Nigam

“When there is no process, people lose hope that their voices will be heard. And then they take action, even if there's no legal route to do so. But this action might not be the one they really want to take. Perhaps they want to have a community-wide conversation about a monument or make some changes to it. Understanding and reconciliation can happen in many ways - but when authorities refuse to listen to calls for removal, some people will think they have no choice but to topple a monument.”
― Erin L. Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

“Future society thrives on compassionate AI, which shapes a legal system free of corruption and inequality, delivering justice without fear, bias, or delay but with the utmost care and respect for humanity.”
― Amit Ray, Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0