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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

“When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.”

Thinking Firsts Law Lines Blood Serious Relation Defense Violation In-laws Blood Relation

Author:Emily Yoffe

“Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.”

Law Order Essentials Relation Foundation International Stability International Relations

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.”

Should Ends Law Social Relation Regard Obedience Laws Of Nature Cradle Tombs Social Relations

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.”

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.”

World Law Natural Bases Relation Someday Allies Disagree Beneficial

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.”

Children Matter Seems Law Opinion Clear Ought Relation Cease Treated Indifferent Ignored Public Opinion Involving

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.”

Source: The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand

“To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash”

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Book:Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

“The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.”

Humans Art Law Human Beings Moral Eternal Relation Discussion Don't Change Moral Law

Author:Max Beckmann

“The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.”

People Mean Law Names Nations Masters Relation Slave British Cruelty Absurdity Abstraction

Author:Anthony Daniels

“The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.”

“How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.”

Ifs States Law Individual Opinion Relation Protected Foreign Relations

Author:Thomas Hobbes