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  • Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

    Men   Law   Crime  
    Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

    War   Government   Law  
    Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)
  • Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

    Law   Looks   Magazines  
    Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.143, Open Road Media
  • But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

    Law   Government   Giving  
    Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.18, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
  • At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

    Lying   Government   Law  
    "Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465, 477". Dissenting opinion, 1921.
  • The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.

    Race   Europe   Law  
    Antonin Artaud (1968). “Collected works”, Calder Publications Limited
  • The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

    Men   Law Courts   Rights  
    Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928) See Brandeis 1
  • Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

    Law   Evil   World  
    Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc
  • It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

    Law   Justice   Humanity  
    "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775
  • You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

    Passion   Law   Facts  
  • The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children to read bills, laws, court cases, legislative debates, executive decrees, and bureaucratic policies. They read them in schoolrooms and at home....They said they would consider their children uneducated if they didn't read such things.

    Children   Home   Law  
  • It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy.

  • I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

    Power   Law   Casinos  
  • The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

    Life   Law   Logic  
    The Common Law Lecture 1 (1881).
  • The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

    Running   Law   Long  
    "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.
  • Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

    Plato   Believe   Law  
    Plato, Harold North Fowler, Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, Robert Gregg Bury (1953). “Plato”
  • It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

    1962 Speech at Cornell College, Mt Vernon, Iowa. Reported in the Wall Street Journal, 13 Nov.
  • Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

    Death   Party   Thinking  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”
  • Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

    Art   Real   Mean  
  • Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

    Mean   Men   Court Judges  
    Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria
  • Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

    Loyalty   Law   Space  
  • Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

  • The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

    Law   People   Secret  
  • Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

    Change   Men   Law  
  • It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.

    War   Fighting   Law  
  • If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.

    Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.15, Pan Macmillan
  • It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

    Men   Law   Two  
    Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”
  • Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

    Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)
  • There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

    Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1936
  • Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

    Pigs   Law   Machines  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics
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