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law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. Charles Dickens
law justice water
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. Charles Caleb Colton
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. Charles Caleb Colton
law land tree
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. Charles Caleb Colton
law firsts revolution
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. Charles Caleb Colton
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. Charles Caleb Colton
law would-be rays
You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope. Charles Dickens
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot. Charles Dickens
direct-action acting ifs
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. David Graeber
direct-action people important
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things. Arthur Scargill
direct-action impact empowering
Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in. Joe Greene
direct-action logical method
Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Emma Goldman
direct-action healthy invigorating
Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action Henry Miller
direct-action voting democracy
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. Howard Zinn
direct-action government asking
Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer. Howard Zinn
direct-action people peaceful
When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action. Caroline Lucas
direct-action issues creative
Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth. Martin Luther King, Jr.
anarchy chaos vendetta
This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos. Alan Moore
anarchy beat both coexist control design discipline extreme freedom henry human james life necessary poets suggest work
The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable. Mark Helprin
anarchy woodstock whole-life
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it. Billie Joe Armstrong
anarchy brutal despite freeing gotten hard iraqis justify liberation life perspective
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. Timothy Noah
anarchy became create victim wants
She (Sonia) wants to create anarchy in this country. She became a victim of her own actions. Uma Bharati
anarchy breathing characters people
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos. Deborah Moggach
anarchy wave utopia
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence. Aldous Huxley
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There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class. Adam Rapp
anarchy life-is abstinence
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now! Anton LaVey