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"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."
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"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."
"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
"I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality."
"Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want."
"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
"Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!"
"By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract."
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"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."
"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."
"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
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