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" Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. "
Iain Banks
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You
Society
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" If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. "
Louis D. Brandeis
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" Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first. "
Gina Bellman
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First
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" The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich. "
Gavin Rossdale
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Rich
" Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Them
Men
" I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water. "
Iain Banks
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" Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it. "
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True
" If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair. "
Donna Brazile
Heart
People
Wisdom
" As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one. "
Sam Waterston
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" I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on. "
Iain Banks
Thinking
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" Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. "
George Washington
Made
Legal
Laws
" Justice delayed is justice denied. "
William E. Gladstone
Delayed
Justice
Legal
" Misery is the company of lawsuits. "
Francois Rabelais
" I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example. "
Daniel Goleman
Say
Job
Accountant
" When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen. "
Erica Jong
Desk
Pen
Legal
" If I were in the middle of some kind of legal issue, I would get in my car and drive to Fenway. I'd get to the game early and sit in my seats and say, 'I'm home, I'm happy, and I love it here.' It was my therapy. "
Joseph Abboud
Drive
Love
Legal
" Fairness is what justice really is. "
Potter Stewart
Justice
Really
Fairness
" Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. "
Otto von Bismarck
Laws
Better
See
" Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin. "
Paul Bloom
Nature
Color
Face
" I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. "
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Money
Lawyer
Who
" Taste cannot be controlled by law. "
Thomas Jefferson
Controlled
Cannot
Taste
" I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. "
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Man
Society
My Life
" We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice. "
Sonia Sotomayor
" Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them. "
Shirley Chisholm
Past
Legal
Time
" We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Great
Respect
People
" In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. "
Julian Assange
World
Safe
Fighting
" Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals. "
Lysander Spooner
Meaning
Rights
Health
" If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction. "
Matthew Desmond
Pay
Smart
Consequences
" Law is born from despair of human nature. "
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Human Nature
Law
Legal
" Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration. "
Jan C. Ting
Legal
Problem
Learning
" I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them. "
Elton John
Know
Legal
Action