Quotes from Ronald Dworkin

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

Absolute confidence or clarity is the privilege of fools and fanatics.

I disagree with you, but I recognize the integrity of your argument. I recognize your moral responsibility.

Death has dominion because it is not only the start of nothing but the end of everything, and how we think and talk about dying - the emphasis we put on dying with 'dignity' - shows how important it is that life ends appropriately , that death keeps faith with the way we have lived it.

The auction proposes what the envy test in fact assumes, that the true measure of the social resources devoted to the life of one person is fixed by asking how important, in fact, that resource is for others. [The auction] insists that the cost, measured in that way, figures in each person's sense of what is rightly his and in each person's judgment of what life he should lead, given that command of justice.

Philosophers used to speculate about what they called the meaning of life. (That is now the job of mystics and comedians.)

Interpret the new situation in the best light.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.