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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
Victims want to know that the true perpetrators of their crime are convicted - legal aid helps achieve this.
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.
Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.
Hispanic citizens know that illegal labor is taking jobs from their children and their legal immigrant friends.
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.
Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.
We are a very systems- and process- driven business which reports directly to the board, whether it is risk or legal.
Legal immigration should emphasize merit and meeting the needs of the U.S., including specific unmet workforce needs.
The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations.
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.
I have a lot of notoriety now because of the Stormy Daniels case. I was less well known before outside of legal circles.
I didn't grow up believing that abortion was a good choice for women, but since it was legal, I thought it must be okay.
I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.
Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
As a former federal judge, I am cognizant of the legal issues. As governor, I am forced to deal with their ramifications.
Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.
For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.
If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.
We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it, even if we sometimes have to build a wall.
I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.
A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.
When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.