Legal Prudence Quotes & Sayings

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society. — Johan Cruyff

I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people. — Ross Macdonald

That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves. — Robert Griffin III

What do you want? What do you want?" he repeated to himself. "What do I want? To live and not to suffer," he answered. And again he listened with such concentrated attention that even his pain did not distract him. "To live? How?" asked his inner voice. "Why, to live as I used to - well and pleasantly." "As you lived before, well and pleasantly?" the voice repeated. And in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. — Leo Tolstoy

The other members of the legal fraternity especially the court officers/lawyers should be encouraged to aid in interpretation of statutes by handing down suggestions to the legislators through a proper channel which shall be specially devised for the purpose. When legal experts fail to exercise their professional prudence, the purpose of law, receives a major blow, and on the contrary leads to chaos and exogenous delivery of justice oblivious of the intention of the legislature/law maker in promulgating a particular statute. — Henrietta Newton Martin

All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Tom Spanbauer

What is your safeword?" I asked rather nonchalantly.
"Texas," Chloe replied. Normally, the only time I ask her that question is when there's a good chance she will be using it.
"And are you wet today?"
"Like a faucet," she answered, "I've been wet and tingly all day."
"A slutty little faucet, isn't that right? Tell me what kind of faucet you are."
"I'm a slutty little faucet," she said.? — Al Daltrey

Show us not the aim without the way.
For ends and means on earth are so entangled
That changing one, you change the other too;
Each different path brings other ends in view — Arthur Koestler

Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society. — David Bentley Hart