“Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?” WayHas BeensAbleAsksForceAudienceDyingMessagesDignityThemeInvitesIrelandJury Author:Julie Walters
“The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.” GivingShouldHas BeensArtInfluenceProveArt IsRewardsPrizeMedalJuryGiving InPernicious Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.” Has BeensPoliticalPeersJuryJudicial Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.” WorldWellsHas BeensMadeDifferentMatterEnoughMightPastForceEnvironmentFineProveMassBuiltPerfectionCurrentsAvailableCuriousOur WorldImperfectionTransformedSelectionMight Have BeenAdaptationJuryAdaptedQuirkyOmnipotentRiggedOptimal Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.” Has BeensHumorHappensLawKnownLawyerInnocentClientsJuryReluctantTriumphantVerdictAcquittal Book:De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings