If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. – Lord Halifax Category: Justice & Law
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson Category: Justice & Law
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. – Alexander Pope Category: Trust
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. – J.K. Galbraith Category: Conformity
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. – Robert Hass Category: Poetry
