“The job of a criminal defense lawyer is to remind people of what they have chosen to misremember.”
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
— Mike Tyson
“There is man in his entirety, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1953)
“The media is not an enemy of the people; neither is it their friend.”
“Keep close to nature’s heart, and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
— John Muir
“Essentially, we have always been cave-dwellers.”
“I am breathing calmly, breathing like the sea.”
— Pentii Holappa, Seagulls in Autumn
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“We all wear masks, metaphorically speaking.”
— Jim Carrey as Stanley Ipkiss in “The Mask“
“The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“What you seek is seeking you.”
— Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”
— Franz Kafka
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. […]
“For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.”
— Gospel of Luke 12:48 (KJV)
“The basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the dignity of man. While the State has the power to punish, the Amendment stands to assure that this power be exercised within the limits of civilized standards. … The Court [has] recognized … that the words of the Amendment are not precise, and that […]