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«The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.»
Author: Gerry Spence
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Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
function, Law and Justice, preserve, provide, The Law
«There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.»
«The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion»
Author: Henry George
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
Action The, exertion, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, fundamental principle, gratify, gravitation, human action, Laws of physics, law of gravitation, physics, political economy
«The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.»
Author: Larry Wall
| About:
Law and lawyers,
University
| Keywords:
controlled, Harvard Law, humidity, nutrition, organism, pleases, temperature, temperatures
«There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.»
«The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer.»
Author: Robert Schmitt
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
ball-peen hammer, ball, essentially, hammer, lawyer, mechanic, peen, pen
«The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man»
«There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.»
Author: Maria Callas
(Soprano)
| About:
Childhood,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
be given, early childhood, force of law, forcing
«The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Nature,
Universe,
World
| Keywords:
board, board game, chess, chess game, chess player, Laws of nature, Other side, phenomena, player, Rules of, the laws of nature, The other side, The Player, The Rules
«The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Constitution,
Country,
Justice,
Law and lawyers,
Weapons
| Keywords:
foundations, The Chief
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