For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.
Cesare BeccariaTags: judge justice law trials crimes-and-punishments
It is a considerable point in all good legislation to determine exactly the credibility of witnesses and the proofs of a crime. Every reasonable man, everyone, that is, whose ideas have a certain interconnection and whose feelings accord with those of other men, may be a witness. The true measure of his credibility is nothing other than his interest in telling or not telling the truth; for this reason it is frivolous to insist that women are too weak [to be good witnesses], childish to insist that civil death in a condemned man has the same effects as a real death, and meaningless to insist on the infamy of the infamous, when they have no interest in lying.
Cesare BeccariaTags: justice law witnesses crimes-and-punishments beccaria
Tighe took control of his thoughts.
“You need to use the bathroom. When I tell you to, go into the house. Two cats will try to come
in with you. You must let them in. Don’t allow anyone to stop them. Once inside the house, you’ll
go into the bathroom and close the door, pull down your pants, then curl up on the floor and go to
sleep.”
The bastard’s career would be over when they caught him, literally, with his pants down. But he
deserved it for kicking a cat.
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Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional
Vladimir LevshinTags: truth justice ussr mental-health russians
Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!
Henri BarbusseTags: justice
There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.
Mark HelprinTags: justice philosophical mystery
Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams.
V.S. CarnesWe need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.
Scot McKnightTags: inspirational justice religion hope christian religious discipleship
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.
Gary SteinerTags: injustice power animals morality justice silence veganism tragedy oppression violence slavery domestication
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: wisdom politics truth error morality morals justice democracy philosophical law christian right-and-wrong voting laws catholic catholic-author justice-system gadfly error-and-truth hard-truths bad-laws democracy-gone-wrong evil-laws referrendum votings
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