"In politics the middle way is none at all."

-- John Adams

#Success Quotes #Law Quotes #Nerd Quotes

“A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.”
“And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.”
“When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty”
“A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 4, Socrates and After, p. 140, 1985.
“I love being in love. It's the best feeling in the world. I have never felt like this before.”
“Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.”
“Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of our most fateful decisions are made unbeknownst to ourselves. Yet we insist that mankind can achieve what we cannot: conscious mastery of its existence. This is the creed of those who have given up an irrational belief in God for an irrational faith in mankind.”

Source : "Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (The Deception: At the Masked Ball)". Book by John Gray (p. 38), August 29, 2002.
“Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.”

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