Quote by S.I. Hayakawa
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such direct

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

Other quotes by S.I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Conformity
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa

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Failure
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Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Patriotism
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Justice & Law
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. – Honoré de Balzac

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Justice & Law

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. – Isaac Rosenfeld

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Justice & Law

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. – Judge Sturgess

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Justice & Law

The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. – Author Unknown

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Justice & Law

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