--- title: "3 Criminal justice Quotes By Sergio De La Pava" description: "3 Criminal justice quotes by Sergio De La Pava. Plus more from Sergio De La Pava and more Criminal justice sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2e/sergio-de-la-pava-22552_acheivment_the-relevant-question-is-not-whether-bac_399143.jpg" --- > [“The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/the-relevant-question-is-not-whether-back-then-a-few-extraordinary/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2e/sergio-de-la-pava-22552_acheivment_the-relevant-question-is-not-whether-bac_399143.jpg) > [“Look, people need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they likewise experience constantly. To do this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/look-people-need-to-conform-the-external-reality-they-face-daily-with/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de0/sergio-de-la-pava-22552_average-person_look-people-need-to-conform-the-external_1024190.jpg) > [I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/i-pretended-i-had-urgent-business-at-the-prosecutor-s-table-which-in/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f93/sergio-de-la-pava-22552_boxes_i-pretended-i-had-urgent-business-at-the_2134872.jpg) ## Other authors on Criminal justice - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michelle-alexander-67636.jpg) Michelle Alexander 30 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/criminal-justice/michelle-alexander/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hillary-clinton-42043.jpg) Hillary Clinton 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/criminal-justice/hillary-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bernie-sanders-17420.jpg) Bernie Sanders 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/criminal-justice/bernie-sanders/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/criminal-justice/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-aamir-8613.jpg) Piper Kerman 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/criminal-justice/piper-kerman/) - [Malcolm Jenkins 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/criminal-justice/malcolm-jenkins/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-kamala-harris-54949.jpg) Kamala Harris 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/criminal-justice/kamala-harris/) - [Chesa Boudin 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/criminal-justice/chesa-boudin/) ## More by Sergio De La Pava > [“The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/the-relevant-question-is-not-whether-back-then-a-few-extraordinary/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“Undone by your own protective measures.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/undone-by-your-own-protective-measures/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“Let us continue to hone and hone the methods by which man hangs his fellow man and be done, once and for all, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/let-us-continue-to-hone-and-hone-the-methods-by-which-man-hangs-his/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If happiness were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/the-real-problem-is-i-m-greedy-i-want-complete-utter-unceasing-bliss/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“And far away in goddamn L.A. or Madison Avenue is the prick who decided that Skittles would sell more quickly if they promised Jalens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/and-far-away-in-goddamn-l-a-or-madison-avenue-is-the-prick-who/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“It's hard to imagine any group of people being held in less esteem than we are by our clients. The overwhelming majority of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/it-s-hard-to-imagine-any-group-of-people-being-held-in-less-esteem/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“Look, people need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they likewise experience constantly. To do this they have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/look-people-need-to-conform-the-external-reality-they-face-daily-with/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [Vote? What's so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that. If you vote and your guy wins you can't later complain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/vote-what-s-so-fun-about-voting-you-should-never-vote-everyone-knows/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/there-s-a-manner-of-speaking-you-use-while-lawyering-a-manner-as/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“And if you learn only one thing from the ensuing maybe let it be this: the police were not merely interested observers who occasionally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/and-if-you-learn-only-one-thing-from-the-ensuing-maybe-let-it-be-this/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/but-insensate-time-is-nothing-if-not-cruel-and-heartless-it-corrodes/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“I know this is going to sound weird but this kind of love is almost too intense. It hurts a bit. It feels almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/i-know-this-is-going-to-sound-weird-but-this-kind-of-love-is-almost/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for our libidinous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/the-overwhelming-noise-we-live-with-has-made-a-fundamental-pleasure/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“Appeal. Guy's like you get all excited about the appeal. Don't you see that I view the very existence of an appeal as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/appeal-guy-s-like-you-get-all-excited-about-the-appeal-don-t-you-see/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) > [“And I don't give a cow's dick what Hume said, science rules!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-de-la-pava/and-i-don-t-give-a-cow-s-dick-what-hume-said-science-rules/) [Sergio De La Pava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-de-la-pava/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/criminal-justice/sergio-de-la-pava/#itemlist", "name": "3 Criminal justice Quotes By Sergio De La Pava", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. 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