Legal system Quote by Ernesto Guevara

“And that's the terrible thing about these past trials, is that they have this aura of legitimacy, this aura of legality. I suspect that…

— William M. Kunstler

“The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious…

— Francis Iles

“So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a…

— Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality that seemed…

— Melanie Joy

“We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the…

— Jan Valtin

“When it came to dealing with feral dissidents, there was only one unwritten law that superseded all others: "An' it secure a conviction, do…

— H.M. Forester

If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud;…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking…

— John Buchanan

“The loss of freedom, tyranny, abuse, hunger would all have been easier to bear if not for the compulsion to call them freedom, justice,…

— Anne Applebaum

“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.”

— Simon Young

“...when scores of indicted criminals sit in parliament who could believe in the rule of law...”

— Donna Leon