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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.
minorities majority looks
Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority. Louis C. K.
minorities vegan enough
I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan. Carol Leifer
minorities rewards fool
The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money. Adam Smith
minorities plenty
There are plenty of opportunities for minorities on campus, you've just got to take them. David Hillery
minorities done proud
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag. Cristina Saralegui
minorities purpose majority
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. James Madison
minorities association triumph
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous. Lord Acton
minorities arms behavior
The behavior of the minority warranted the sergeant at arms being called. Jim McCrery
minorities mistreated terrible women
It's a terrible place. Women are mistreated there. Minorities are mistreated there.
unjust injustice one-thing
those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ... Eliza Haywood
unjust kind should
God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?
unjust merit done
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them. Jane Austen
unjust may persuasion
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
unjust mercy
A God all mercy is a God unjust. Edward Young
unjust ancestry birth
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. Edmund Burke
unjust never-change lows
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. Albert Camus
unjust philosopher free-will
There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must. Ambrose Bierce
unjust accepting guidelines
The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust. Anthony Kennedy