S.I. Hayakawa's Quote - Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such direct

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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

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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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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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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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The more laws the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

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

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