“The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.”
–Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, 1953.

Sources:
https://blog.law.cornell.edu/blog/2008/06/28/our-favorite-quotes-raymond-chandler/
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/raymondcha101546.html
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