Quotation of Law (法律名言录)24

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In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American.
16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man‘s conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.
Carl G. Jung, in the introduction to Frances G. Wickes‘ "Analysis der Kinderseele" (The Inner World of Childhood), 1931I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)