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"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."
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"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
"Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country."
"I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association."
"I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers."
"I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman."
"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."
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"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."
"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."
"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."
"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
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