The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
Victor HugoBeauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
Naomi WolfTags: sexuality equality self-esteem beauty society advertising feminism law rape culture magazines aging cosmetics double-standards objectification body-image marketing pornography eating-disorders images sexual-violence harassment sexual-harassment plastic-surgery diet-industry cosmetic-surgery fashion-industry mass-culture
Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its facts heaped upon facts requiring complex chains of inference to sort through – I mean complex for someone with the soft brain of a tomato merchant; for me the premises are obvious and the conclusions dire and inescapable – threatened to crush me, and I was ultimately forced to abandon the whole undertaking. By way of recovery, I spent the rest of the summer immersed in a Freudian meditation on some choice tabloids. The mysterious lives of celebrities make for challenging induction. The reasoning process involves navigating many gaps in our knowledge of them. What is certain is that under the iceberg of glitz and glamor lie neurotic, depraved individuals with bizarre habits and hobbies, people who think they’re above the law.
Benson BrunoTags: history funny celebrity law neurosis
What do you take me for? That fool Socrates, who upheld the law at the cost of his own death – just to be ironic? I suspect that act was actually the result of his secret embarrassment of his hideous nose.
Benson BrunoTags: funny law irony socrates noses
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.
But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.
Tags: society justice conscience law law-school
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.
Frank HerbertTags: bravery civilisation law cowardice
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTags: law
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
Christopher HitchensBloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.
Christopher HitchensTags: tyranny law 2004 cars big-government pettiness car-alarms mayoralty-of-michael-bloomberg michael-bloomberg
Bush violated FISA [...] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general 'principle' that he was not bound by the law, to show that he has the power to break the law, that he is more powerful than the law.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics power united-states law george-w-bush crime executive-government precedent
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