All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate. - Thane Rosenbaum

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Thane Rosenbaum

All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.

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Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.

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Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

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Legal ethics is a misnomer. . . lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally. ". . . and. . . "The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

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Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.

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The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

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Stanislaw Lem

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

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C. S. Lewis

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew

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Ruth Negga

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

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Zora Neale Hurston

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

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Pope John Paul II

In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.

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