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Quoted in The Grove: law
Justice? You get justice in the next world; in this world you have the law.
~William Gaddis
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
Justice is incidental to law and order.
~John Edgar Hoover
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
~Earl Warren
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Exercise Prompt for 10/18: ghost
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
~Oscar Wilde
Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed.
~Paul Russell
Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
~Louis Brandeis
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
~Edward Abbey
You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable.
~Pan Macmillan
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Posted from the Grove
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
~Charlotte Bronte
There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.
~Amy Harmon
Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.
~Ward Becker
The law is hard, but it is the law.
~Cassandra Clare
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~Jay Nordlinger: Right Words — On how to write, and what to read
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/right-words-how-to-write-what-to-read/
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~Laura Vanderkam @The Forge: The Work Day, Then Done
https://forge.medium.com/the-new-way-to-know-when-youre-done-with-work-84c4745fec03
— also —
~Natasha Frost @The Forge: The Workweek: Not 5 Days, but 7 Ways
https://forge.medium.com/7-ways-to-do-a-workweek-9925ebf7d050
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
~Pearl S Buck
Poverty is the mother of crime.
~Marcus Aurelius
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
~Anatole France
Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.
~Judge Sturgess
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
~Marguerite Gardiner
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
~Aristotle
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A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
~Howard Scott
It’s strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
~Author unknown
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VIDEO:
Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments.
~Bert Masterson/Earl Wilson
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
~Charles Evans Hughes
The more laws the more offenders.
~Thomas Fuller
The more laws, the less justice.
~German proverb
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
~Erik Pepke
Law never made men a whit more just.
~Henry David Thoreau
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~Connection (starring Jude Law): (10:11) stranger than fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87B1tz3KdOg
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~Dust: Final Offer (11:23) small-time lawyer, cosmic stakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8kOzRZK8g
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~Boris Johnson X The Clash: I Fought the Law (0:54) English humour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0pTpwqkB48
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Law without reason is criminal.
~Criss Jami
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
~Chaim Weizmann
A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.
~Robert Brault
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
~Robert A Heinlein
Surely we will not dare say that these laws are unjust, or rather, that they are not laws at all. For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
~Augustine of Hippo
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MUSIC:
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
~Keith Richards
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
~Mick Jagger
I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.
~Sid Vicious
The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.
~Henry Ward Beecher
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
~Henry Ward Beecher
Anarchy doesn’t mean out of control; it means out of their control.
~Jim Dodge
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The Jive Aces Skiffle Combo: Mama Don’t Allow (4:33) Mama’s law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tHj1Q39oFQ
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~All Star Garage Band: I Fought the Law (2:40) a constellation of stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk8uCsI0FdM
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~Eddie Van Halen: Eruption Guitar Solo (13:05) genius and the guitar
wait for it, watch his face for it, the joy of melody and full-on anarchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9r-NxuYszg
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~Law: Elissa (3:09) triangles come in Arabic, too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ambi1Ssohk
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Legislative acts murder more men than the assassin.
~James Lendall Basford
The sun is but a little swinging ball;
The hills are tiny, and the seas are small;
The sky is not so lofty, after all.
But see! This man we’re hanging — in him lies,
No matter what the guilt for which he dies,
A living soul, and who can guess its size?
~Mary Carolyn Davies
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
~Remy de Gourmont
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
~Jesse Jackson
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We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ’em plenty of publicity.
~Will Rogers
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
~Norm Crosby
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
~Robert Frost
I broke a mirror in my house and was supposed to get seven years bad luck but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
~Steven Wright
We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
~Will Rogers
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
~Charles Dickens
Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge.
~Author Unknown
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
~H L Mencken
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An appeal… is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
~Finley Peter Dunne
Dissents speak to a future age. It’s not simply to say: My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way; but the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time become the dominant view. So that’s the dissenter’s hope, that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.
~Author Unknown
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@Writers Platform
Litigant: A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
~Ambrose Bierce
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
~Ambrose Bierce
A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself.
~Lord Brougham
The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.
~Welsh Proverb
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbor to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
~Abraham Lincoln
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Exercise Prompt: law
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Many things have been introduced into the common law which are contrary to logical reason, for the sake of the common welfare.
~Latin saying
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
~Wendell Phillips
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The Exercise:
~BarTalk:
Lawless
Lawless in a land that endless lies
‘Neath an open vault of wilderness skies
Anarchy of the wild-born unbranded id
The loveless, friendless Outlaw Kid
Knifed my brother, shot my father
Raped my sister, then my mother
Tracked them, found them, killed them
Left unburied, let the wild dogs eat them
Untamed country, unnamed county
Uncaged hunter, unbadged duty
Wanted poster, free-ranging maverick
On the run, escape-their-noose trick
Unmatched beauty, ranch hand’s daughter
Eyes far bluer than deep lake water
Hopeless, roped me, refused their bounty
Hid me, loved me, then let me go free
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Unite The Divide
We were the United States
Not the Divided States
One time as One
Now done and gone
Fractious brothers and quarreling sisters
Burning each other, painfully blistering
Born one family, the same mother land
Same household rules, fair father’s hand
One land, one law, wed together as parents
Myriad expressions of ten million talents
Encompass the breadth, the width and length
Cemented as one for tensile strength
A strong constitution, source of family health
Repaying with kindness for our spiritual wealth
We are the United States, not the divided states
Debating and growing, knowing and crowing…
Our country, one family — never less than great
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5-7-5-7-7 5-7-5
in awe of the law
black ink, fluid with wisdom
words etched on vellum
soft walls tall against chaos
gift of order nurtures art
yet love has no rules
mutiny and anarchy
the borderless heart
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5-7-5
law of the land
fame, carved-in-stone gaming rules
can be bought for cash
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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed.
~Emma Goldman
Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
~Azarias
Judicial judgment must take deep account … of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
~Justice Felix Frankfurter
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
~Henry Ward Beecher
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