3 Quotes Tagged: jurisprudence

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The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome — not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

Poor men have more to fear when the laws go down than the rich, for they are less able to protect themselves without law. You had all better shiver when you see a policeman rioting rather than putting down a riot, for he may well come after you next, or stand aside when someone else does.

3 Quotes Tagged: jurisprudence

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