118 Quotes About Courts
- Author Ben Ferencz
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There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance
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- Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
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- Author H. Kirk Rainer
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A mosaic of memories takes me back to my own childhood, and then to my children. My earliest memory of St. Augustine was a day trip from Jacksonville; a day with some neighbors who were nice enough to purchase me a plastic toy-tugboat with a blue superstructure and white hull. Other accounts meld into my adult years. With its history and attractions, The Ancient City is pristine and picturesque by most accounts; but from the Newer Jail (not the Old Jail) , the perspective is very different.
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- Author John Marshall
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The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.
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- Author Bertolt Brecht
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The mechanism of the heavens was clearer, the mechanism of their courts was still murky.[Scene fourteen. English version by Charles Laughton.]
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- Author Bertolt Brecht
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The movements of the stars have become clearer; but to the mass of the people the movements of their masters are still incalculable.[Scene fourteen. Translation by Desmond Vesey, 1960. ‘The present version is a translation of the complete text of the latest German edition, not a stage adaptation.’]
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- Author Akemi Dawn Bowman
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Death doesn't rid of us of our feelings. It just stops us from changing the narrative.
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- Author Cassandra Clare
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There was dancing to wear your feet down, and there were beautiful boys and girls, and kisses were cheaper than wine but the wine was sweet and the fruit sweeter. And you could still hear the music in your head.
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