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" It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. "
Edmund Burke
Legal
Justice
Me
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" Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles. "
Rebecca MacKinnon
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" One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. "
Edmund Burke
Enemy
Good And Evil
Good
" I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity. "
Joshua Oppenheimer
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" Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. "
Edmund Burke
Judgment
Only
Opinion
" We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. "
Romeo LeBlanc
Canada
Debt
Legal
" If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia. "
Vladimir Putin
People
Done
Legal
" As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't. "
Jay Alan Sekulow
Hour
Lawyer
Could
" When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. "
Edmund Burke
Choose
Construction
People
" People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. "
Edmund Burke
Law
Legal
Hope
" In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. "
Edmund Burke
Cruel
Democracy
Minority
" I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age. "
Johnnie Cochran
Age
Lawyer
Legal
" When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Looking
Legal
Fighting
" Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning. "
Louis Nizer
Law
Me
Morning
" Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. "
Lionel Trilling
End
Process
Someone
" A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices. "
Vincent Bugliosi
America
Legal
Organization
" Justice is the sum of all moral duty. "
William Godwin
Moral
Legal
Justice
" I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Book
Marriage
Family
" What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. "
Edmund Burke
Also
Man
God
" You are innocent until proven guilty. And if folks have come forward, whether it is judge Roy Moore or whether it is anyone else, and they have evidence to convict someone of a crime, then they should go through the legal process and do so. "
Matt Rosendale
Judge
Innocent
Process
" I do not believe abortion should be legal. "
Herman Cain
Legal
Should
Abortion
" But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart. "
Lee Greenwood
God
People
Heart
" There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married. "
Karl Lagerfeld
" When Brad and I got married in 2008, it got a lot of attention. And all the attention was over the fact that we were two men, but people were hardly conscious of the fact that we were entering into an interracial marriage. That's wonderful, because it was only 50 years ago with Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriages were made legal. "
George Takei
Legal
People
Marriage
" Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. "
Thomas Carper
Broken
Band
Action
" I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system. "
Felice Picano
Swear
Legal
Law
" I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process. "
Robin Williams
Think
Process
Legal
" As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. "
Julian Bond
Permanent
Slavery
Unemployment
" Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal. "
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Legal
Some
Worst
" Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process. "
Scott Turow
Justice
Good
Perspective
" We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries. "
Nikki Haley
Race
Religion
Broken