Quotes About Court

This game of constant duplicity most resembles the power dynamic that existed in the scheming world of the old aristocratic court.

The court imagined itself the pinnacle of refinement, but underneath its glittering surface a cauldron of dark emotions - greed, envy, lust, hatred - boiled and simmered. Our world today similarly imagines itself the pinnacle of fairness, yet the same ugly emotions still stir within us, as they have forever.

By training yourself to be indirect, you can thrive in the modern court, appearing the paragon of decency while being the consummate manipulator.

The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

There is a danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact

I pictured myself saying in a court of law, Well, Your Honor, there was this evil sorcerer's apprentice and a flesh-eating, power-granting demon he summoned from a primordial dimension . . . Even I couldn't see a way to make that script work.

law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.

Lust magic is the same as date-rape drugs in human court, Uncle Taranis.

the law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.

Meredith," Taranis said, "how can you insult me like this? These men attacked a lady of my court, savaged her. Yet you stand there with them…touching you, as if they are your court favorites." "But, uncle, they are some of my favorites." "Meredith," he said, and he sounded shocked, like an elderly relative who just heard you say "fuck" for the first time. Biggs

Two years ago if a vampire bothered someone I just went out and staked the son of a bitch. Now I had to get a court order of execution. Without it, I was up on murder charges, if I was caught. I longed for the good ol' days. There

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Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

As Sanford saw his inherited fortune draining away, his connections at the Belgian court loomed larger for him.

I shall select judges of manslaughter, and swear them in, establish a court into all time to come. 485 Litigants, call your witnesses, have ready your proofs as evidence under bond to keep this case secure. I will pick the finest of my citizens, and come back. They shall swear to make no judgment that is not just, and make clear where in this action the truth lies.

No plea will protect the innocent from the unjust judge.

Improved reporting practices have enabled the Court to get its message out, and quickly. Nowadays, in any given case a majority of justices ordinarily sign on to a single "Opinion of the Court," an opinion widely viewed as the last word on the Constitution's meaning. Meanwhile, a partisan and crumbly Congress has often found it hard to speak with one voice, and presidents have come to be seen as party politicians rather than impartial magistrates.

In Salisbury's formulation, every element in the state had an anatomical counterpart: the ruler was the head, the parliament was the heart, the court was the sides, officials and judges were the eyes, the army was the hands and the peasantry and labouring classes were the feet.

the most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favour.

The third and, given due consideration, most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favor.