"Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?"

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Source : Ronald Dworkin (2013). “Taking Rights Seriously”, p.48, A&C Black

Ronald Dworkin

#Doe Quotes #Authority Quotes #Holes Quotes

“I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'”
“A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent”
“There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.”

Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com
“One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you got to know them as people, not as either gay or straight. Because as far as we knew, we thought everyone was straight.”
“Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel.”
“I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.”

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“A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.”
“Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse of the poor are the result of the refusal of true Christianity ... one is led to articulate a more incarnate, more participatory, more aesthetic, more erotic, more socialized, even a more 'Platonic' Christianity.”

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