“Terrorism was too tame for the Scots: they used lawyers.”

— Kage Baker, book The Graveyard Game

Source: The Graveyard Game (2001), Chapter 14, “London, 2142” (p. 113)

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American writer 1952–2010

Alice Notley (1945) American poet

Source: Mysteries of Small Houses

“The office of the lawyer, however poorly filled, is too delicate, personal and confidential to be occupied by a corporation.”

Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) American judge

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“Terrorism undermines morality. Then, too, it undermines reason.”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

"The Palace of the End" (2003)
Context: Like all "acts of terrorism" (easily and unsubjectively defined as organised violence against civilians), September 11 was an attack on morality: we felt a general deficit. Who, on September 10, was expecting by Christmastime to be reading unscandalised editorials in the Herald Tribune about the pros and cons of using torture on captured "enemy combatants"? Who expected Britain to renounce the doctrine of nuclear no-first-use? Terrorism undermines morality. Then, too, it undermines reason. … No, you wouldn't expect such a massive world-historical jolt, which will reverberate for centuries, to be effortlessly absorbed. But the suspicion remains that America is not behaving rationally — that America is behaving like someone still in shock.

“Humans have different emotional states that are here to serve us, if anything be redirected. Not to be tamed.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

“The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.”

Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer

Between Tears And Laughter (1943), p. 71. Variant: "When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.", as quoted in The World's Funniest Laws (2005) by James Alexander, ISBN 1905102100, p. 6.