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law justice water
Charles Caleb Colton In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
law land tree
Charles Caleb Colton The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
Charles Caleb Colton If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
Charles Caleb Colton With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens The law is an ass, an idiot.
law equity appearing
Charles Dickens Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
law lawyer mere
Charles Dickens But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
justice long people
Chinua Achebe As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
justice democracy essentials
Edward Gibbon But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.
justice criminals flaws
Ben Whishaw The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
justice-for-all liberty united-states
Benazir Bhutto When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
justice social-justice social
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Freedom is incomplete without social justice.
justice suffering social-justice
Athol Fugard We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
justice publicity eternity
Arnold Bennett The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
justice causes beam
William Shakespeare Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
justice equal
William Shakespeare Justice always whirls in equal measure.
judging lawyer chosen
Charles Caleb Colton "Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.
judging people leader
Antony Jay You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.
judging mercy ifs
William Shakespeare There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
judging charity
William Shakespeare Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
judging care doe
Kurt Vonnegut This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.
judging majority opinion
Cass Sunstein This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority.
judging bangs ends
Carl Douglas It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.
judging bears dens
C. S. Lewis See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.
judging judge-me critics
Charlotte Bronte I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.