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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
"The laws of men are not infallible."
"When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!"
"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."
"When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father."
"What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death."
"This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen's eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the 'criminally insane' label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle's legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both."
"The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion."
Explore more quotes by Andre Norton
"As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead."
"I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative."
"Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people."
"Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly."
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