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«For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.»
Author: Eric Ambler
| About:
Efficiency,
Law and lawyers,
Skepticism
| Keywords:
administered, consolation, inefficiency, skeptic, skeptics, subhuman, superhuman, The Skeptic
«He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides»
«For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
agent, farther, free agent, Free agents, general interest, limitation, notion, prescribes, The General
«Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we're a-going wrong and don't set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn»
«Go to law for a sheep and lose your cow»
«For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Manners
| Keywords:
good manners, maintained, manners, preserved
«Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.»
«Good men must not obey the laws too well.»
«Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
alms, bounties, The Bounty
«He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power»
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