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Legal Quotes

"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."

"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."

Nelson Algren, American Novelist

Legal, Challenge, Conscience, Humanity

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"We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds."

"We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds."

Igor Ivanov, Russian Statesman

Legal, Force, Iraq, Security

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"Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years."

"Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years."

Mike Pence, American Politician

Legal, Country, Research, Years

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"The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system."

"The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system."

David Minge, American Politician

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"The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism."

"The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism."

Warren Farrell, American Writer

Legal, Power, Women, Feminism

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"Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics."

"Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics."

Preston Manning, Canadian Politician

Legal, Society, People, Gender

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"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."

"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."

Scott Turow, American Novelist

Legal, People, Being, Talk

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"We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that."

"We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that."

Pat Travers, Canadian Musician

Legal, Management, Trying, Years

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"Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form."

"Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form."

Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator

Legal, Beauty, Actions, Freedom

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"You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it."

"You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it."

Anatoly Chubais, Russian Politician

Legal, Language, Will

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"There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights."

"There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights."

Dick Durbin, American Politician

Legal, Rights, Hair, Humanrights

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"The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen."

"The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen."

Tim Pawlenty, American Politician

Legal, People, Value

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"God is the King. In him exists all legal authority."

"God is the King. In him exists all legal authority."

Orson Pratt, American Theologian

Legal, God, Authority

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"I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release."

"I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release."

John Forbes Nash, Jr., American Mathematician

Legal, Argument, Hospitals, Months

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"The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted."

"The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted."

Vincent Bugliosi, American Author

Legal, Court, States, United

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"Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage."

"Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage."

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian Statesman

Legal, Adoption, Country, Diversity

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"When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public."

"When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public."

Elena Kagan, American Judge

Legal, Public, Senate

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"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."

"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Legal, Financial, Children, Divorce

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"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."

"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Legal, Age, Mother, Father

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"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Legal, Authority, Oppression

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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Legal, Winning, Defense, Fight

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