“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:

http://tinyurl.com/kwkhgfn

https://blog.law.cornell.edu/blog/2008/06/28/our-favorite-quotes-raymond-chandler/

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/raymondcha101546.html