Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

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 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.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Dickens

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

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Boy George

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

Alfred Kinsey

Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

Jason Collins

Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

Hillary Clinton

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

Hillary Clinton

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

Johnny Weir

I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community,

Bryan Stevenson

We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Elizabeth I

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

Brandon Marshall

I'm against discrimination in all forms.

Ambrose Bierce

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

George Orwell

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

Emily Saliers

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Lionel Blue

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

Joseph Stiglitz

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.