“We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.”
My Own Story (1914), p. 129, Hearst's International Library.
“Any woman would see at once the secret of all this ingenuity and effort. The Chartres apse, enormous in size and width, is exquisitely lighted. Here, as everywhere throughout the church, the windows give the law, but here they actually take place of law.”
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
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Henry Adams
(1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
(1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
As quoted in A World View of Criminal Justice (2005) by Richard K. Vogler, p. 116
Max Horkheimer
(1895–1973) German philosopher and sociologist
Source: "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics" (1937), p. 150.
Mark Ames
(1965) American writer and journalist
Part II: The Banality of Slavery, page 65.
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005)
Context: Just as the American colonials' consciousness expanded from rebelling against unfair taxation in the 1760s to wide noble revolutionary goals touching on the inherent rights of mankind, so the Whiskey Rebellion guerrillas took on broader themes as injustice increasingly framed their consciousness. Once you start seeing injustice in one place, it's like taking off blinders- you start to see injustice everywhere, and how it is all connected.
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 28
Context: Analogy would lead us to conclude that the combinations of the primordial matter, forming our so-called elements, are as universal or as liable to take place everywhere as are the laws of gravitation and centrifugal force. We must therefore presume that the gases, the metals, the earths, and other simple substances, (besides whatever more of which we have no acquaintance,) exist or are liable to come into existence under proper conditions, as well in the astral system, which is thirty five thousand times more distant than Sirius, as within the bounds of our own solar system or our own globe.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)
“Listen, here is the law! I am the law! These boys go to work!”
Frank Hague
(1876–1956) Mayor of Jersey City
Speech on city government to the Emory Methodist Episcopal Church in Jersey City (10 November 1937), quoted in New York Times. (11 November 1937), p. 1, responding to the director of the Board of Education's special service bureau, upon being told that the law required two young delinquents to go to school rather than work, as they would have preferred.
“Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.”
Freda Adler
(1934) Criminologist, educator
Source: Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975), P. 203.
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
(1820–1894) British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician
Reg v. Solomons (1890), 17 Cox, C. C. 93.