Bob Dylan on Justice

"You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks. With great lawyers you've discussed lepers and crooks."

"I've always been the kind of person who doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line."

"Yesterday's just a memory; tomorrow's never what it's supposed to be."

"They already expect you to just give a check to tax-deductible charity organization."

"Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one."

"Took a stranger to teach me to look into justice's beautiful face, and to see an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."

"Man's ego's inflated, his laws are outdated. They don't apply no more. You can't rely no more to be standing around waiting."

"Do you ever wonder just what God requires? You think he's just an errand boy to satisfy your wandering desires."

"I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet."

"I feel pretty good, but that ain't saying much — I could feel a whole lot better, if you were just here by my side to show me how."

"You always said people don't do what they believe in; they just do what's most convenient, then they repent."

"Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square — I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death."

"You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning."

"Just how much abuse will you be able to take? Well, there's no way to tell by the first kiss."

"Well I tried my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them"

"Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land, where justice is a game."

"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet."

"If I catch my opponents ever sleepin', I'll just slaughter 'em where they lie."

"We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view..."

"How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?"

"Man is opposed to fair play: he wants it all, and he wants it his way."

"Capitalism is above the law; it's said it don't count 'less it sells."

"The one was Texas medicine. the other was just railroad gin. And, like a fool, I mixed them and it strangled up my mind and now people just get uglier and I have no sense of time."

"It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run"

"I didn't go to classes. I just didn't feel like it."

"The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out, and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much."

"All that foreign oil controlling American soil. Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed: sheiks walking around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings, deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris."

"I think it's the land. The streams, the forests, the vast emptiness. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. But I have a love for humankind, a love of truth, and a love of justice. I think I have a dualistic nature. I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type."

"It's not a character like in a book or a movie. He's not a bus driver. He doesn't drive a forklift. He's not a serial killer. It's me who's singing that, plain and simple. We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, “My character this, and my character that.” Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me."