The answers to everything are in the books, he said to her. "It is in knowing which books, of course, and where to look." - Sheri S. Tepper

That's why we train women judges here at Temple. It is the nature of men to make rules for everything and to play complicated games with them. For them, the game is more important than justice.
"Ordinary people prefer justice. They prefer that things be taken case by case, they prefer an attempt at justice over the rules of law, for they know that pure law is often used by the clever to victimize the innocent.

Don’t take me for a fool, lovely girl. We fat old things have not laid aside our brains with our silhouettes.

Old men’s religions and old men’s legends, always elsewhere, in the dark, so they could not be seen too clearly. So they could not be examined too closely. So they could go on, breeding, fulminating, burning, and rotting in the dark.