"The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?"

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Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.182, Vintage

Bernhard Schlink

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“Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.”

Source : "Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities" by Jack Antonoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.
“You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.”
“I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .”
“Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.”
“But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.”
“Decadence is wonderful.”
“The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt to bolster a growing reliance on the government--especially the judiciary--as the source of our rights. But if our rights are not unalienable, if they don't come from a source higher than ourselves, then they're malleable at the will of the state. This is a prescription for tyranny.”

Source : Mark R. Levin (2006). “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America”, p.53, Regnery Publishing
“Love is much more demanding than law.”

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