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Extreme law is often extreme injustice. — Terence

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law. — G. Edward Griffin

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long - established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership. — Barton Gellman

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. — Henry Miller

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live. — Swami Vivekananda Letters of Swami...

reduce a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death, to one less severe: the governor recently commuted the sentences of dozens of women convicted of killing their husbands. — Erin McKean The New Oxford...

I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them. — Henry David Thoreau Civil...

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation. — Howard Zinn You Can't Be...

there's no better system than our own morality, not law, not science, not religion… just decency.

I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? An' they waggle their ass an' flop their gun aroun'. Ma", he said, "if it was the law they was...

Law of Suspects. Suspects are those: who have in any way aided tyranny {royal tyranny, Brissotin tyranny...}; who cannot show that they have performed their civic duties; who do not starve, and yet...

But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old,...

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

Without trade the world will become what it was once-a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected...

Those who do not intend to satisfy do not toke conditions in hiring.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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