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"The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity"
"The law always limits every power it gives."
"When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking."
"Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
"The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion."
"And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never."
"We have never had the will to enforce the immigration laws. What you see is what you'll continue to get."
"The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known."
"The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking."
"Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become."
"We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face."
"Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law."
"Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have."
"Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."
"The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
"... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]"
".. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition."
"There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . ."
"I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go."
"It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery."
