"Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel."

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Source : "Fictional character: Thea". "Isle of the Dead", www.imdb.com. 1945.

Ardel Wray

#Law Quotes #People Quotes #Cruelty Quotes

“[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.”
“Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.”
“Acorns were good until bread was found.”
“It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.”
“Thereâ€™s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.”
“I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.”

Source : Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.”
“There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.”

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