Law Courts Quotes - Page 2

• It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Men, Law, Two

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children to read bills, laws, court cases, legislative debates, executive decrees, and bureaucratic policies. They read them in schoolrooms and at home....They said they would consider their children uneducated if they didn't read such things.

  Oliver DeMille

  Children, Home, Law

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• It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Government, Law

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• The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

  Adolf Loos

  Law, People, Secret

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• Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mean, Men, Court Judges

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Law, Trying

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• I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

  Richard Ingrams

  Power, Law, Casinos

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• Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

  Plato

  Plato, Believe, Law

  Plato, Harold North Fowler, Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, Robert Gregg Bury (1953). “Plato”

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• Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

  Storm Jameson

  Loyalty, Law, Space

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• Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

  Rebecca West

  Law, Looks, Magazines

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Party, Thinking

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow
  composed of the helpless and the impotent.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Government, Law, Missing

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.

  Antonin Artaud

  Race, Europe, Law

  Antonin Artaud (1968). “Collected works”, Calder Publications Limited

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