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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
moral-behavior numbers quality
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. Aldous Huxley
moral-behavior morality marriage-and-family
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. Gary Bauer
moral-behavior life-happens gray-area
There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens. Scott Adams
moral-behavior survival fiction
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival". Robert A. Heinlein
moral-behavior selfishness conflict
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. Robert A. Heinlein
survival computer sanity
Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival. Alan Cooper
survival gravestone testimonial
A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. Al Purdy
survival world way
Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival. David Suzuki
survival tied
All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone, Bryan Stevenson
survival pay
Freedom is a small price to pay for survival. Catherine Fisher
survival income expenditures
Expenditures rise to meet income. C. Northcote Parkinson
survival survivor
I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor. Kurt Vonnegut
survival grew grew-up
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky. Bear Grylls
survival arena desert
The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena. Bear Grylls