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Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.
No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God.
A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.
I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That would depress me.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.
Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression.
Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.
The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.
I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.
In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.
The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.
A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy.
I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into pillars of salt.
Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.
Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.
We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.
All those good people huddling behind bars in gated communities - it's the wrong way round. The others should have the bars.
Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.
If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.
My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.