"Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master."

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"Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master."

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"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."

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"The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction."

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"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."

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"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."

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"I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice."

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"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."

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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

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"Kingdom laws are inherent to the native of mankind."

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"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

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"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."

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"The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes."

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"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."

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"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."

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"There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control."

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"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."

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"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."

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"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."

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"The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds."

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