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"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."
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"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
Doubt
"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
Books
"The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement."
Challenge
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
Appearance
"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers."
Quality
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
Research
"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
Power
"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
God
"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."
God
"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring."
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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
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"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."
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"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."
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"Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws."
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"I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills."
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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"
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"Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas."
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"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."
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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
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"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
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