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  • All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Law Quotes , Ordinary Extraordinary Quotes
  • There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Men Quotes , Law Quotes
  • The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Law Quotes , Evil Quotes
  • Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Law Quotes , Insanity Quotes
  • Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Law Quotes , Knowing Quotes
  • People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Art Quotes , Law Quotes
  • Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Law Quotes