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“Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness”

People Real Reality Law Courses Results Consciousness Groups Bears Morality Ethics Relation Court Dues Lawyer Doctrine Tragic Legislature Highlights Landlord Tenants Legal Ethics

Author:William J. Brennan

“We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.”

“The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.”

World Past Law Humanity Term Moral Bears Ought Fragments

Author:Edgar Quinet

“Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.”

Has Beens Whole Law Names Bears Blame Schemes Calamity

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.”

Law Bears Mathematical Obscure Bulls Bull Markets

Author:Warren Buffett

“All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.”

Spiritual Law Bears Spiritual Life Hindrance Benign

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.”

Men Mind Law Growth Moral Duty Bears Moral Law

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.”

Mind Doe Law Depends Bears Circumstances

Author:Robert Greene