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“LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes �� gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if the day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ’prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.

Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time �� as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look.

The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation, Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln’s Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.”
― John Marshall

“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”
― Ammon Hennacy

“...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.”
― Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold

“Death doesn't rid of us of our feelings. It just stops us from changing the narrative.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, The Infinity Courts

“...even though I’m a product of Brown v. Board of Education, about 12 years ago I realized that I don’t think we could win Brown v. Board of Education today.... I don’t think our court would do anything that disruptive on behalf of disfavored people, on behalf of marginalized people. And that terrified me. But it also energized me to recognize that we were going to have to get outside the court and create a different consciousness. The question for me is, why wouldn’t we win? And it’s because we haven’t really reckoned with these larger issues of what it means to be a country dealing with our history of racial inequality.”
― Bryan Stevenson

“A wide assortment of children's rights advocates, lawyers, and mental health experts were watching closely when we asked the Court to declare life-without-parole sentences imposed on children unconstitutional.

....I told the Court that the United States is the only country in the world that imposes life imprisonment without parole sentences on children. I explained that condemning children violates international law, which bans these sentences for children. We showed the Court that these sentences are disproportionately imposed on children of color. We argued that the phenomenon of life sentences imposed on children is largely a result of harsh punishments that were created for career adult criminals and were were never intended for children--which made the imposition of such a sentence on juveniles like Terrance Graham and Joe Sullivan unusual. I also told the Court that to say to any child of thirteen that he is fit only to die in prison is cruel.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“The jangling, dissonant sound of modern politics; the anger on cable television and the evening news; the fast pace of social media; the headlines that clash with one another when we scroll through them; the dullness, by contrast, of the bureaucracy and the courts; all of this has unnerved that part of the population that prefers unity and homogeneity. Democracy itself has always been loud and raucous, but when its rules are followed, it eventually creates consensus. The modern debate does not. Instead, it inspires in some people the desire to forcibly silence the rest.”
― Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

“Corrupt governments run corrupt courts that protect corrupt cops.”
― Steven Magee

“The movements of the stars have become clearer; but to the mass of the people the movements of their masters are still incalculable.

[Scene fourteen. Translation by Desmond Vesey, 1960. ‘The present version is a translation of the complete text of the latest German edition, not a stage adaptation.’]”
― Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

“The mechanism of the heavens was clearer, the mechanism of their courts was still murky.

[Scene fourteen. English version by Charles Laughton.]”
― Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

“Modern corporate controlled governments have devolved into corrupt politicians running crooked courts that are being fed by thugs wearing police uniforms.”
― Steven Magee

“There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance”
― Ben Ferencz

“CHRISTMAS IN BARBADOS

I miss being in Barbados in December,
That is a time I always remember.
The smell of varnish on the wooden floors
and the smell of paint on the wooden doors.
The smell of cloves as the ham was baked
and the smell of the rum, in my mudda fruit cakes.
The smell of coconut as she baked de sweetbread
and the smell of the cloth as she made up de bed.
The sounds of "Moussa" as he played "Nat King Cole"
The sounds of "Lassie" as he played��"Coming in from de cold".
The hustling and the bustling of the Bajans buying Christmas gifts,
The sights of Taxis, giving Bajan Yankees a lift.
The barrels on top of the lorries and the vans,
The cases of sweet drinks and the baking pans
The young people in town buying a new Christmas dress,
The smell of hair that yuh mudda just press.
The crowds in de Supermarket buying up the rum,
And the music blasting, “Puh Rup a Pum Pum��.
I am usually glad when de New Year begins,.
A month later, "Courts and Manning come back fuh the things.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Courthouses are good and necessary first half of life institutes. In the second half, you try instead to influence events, work for change, quietly persuade, change your own attitude, pray or forgive instead of taking things to court.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“The courts are perpetuating the culture of silencing women while at the same time fostering the culture of violence with impunity by not fixing the accountability of the batterers.”
― Shalu Nigam

“We're one of the three Solar Courts,' he said, motioning for me to sit with a graceful twist of his wrist. 'Our nights are far more beautiful and our sunsets and dawns are exquisite, but we do adhere to the laws of nature.'

I slid into the upholstered chair across from him. His tunic was unbuttoned at the neck, revealing a hint of the tanned chest beneath. 'And do the other courts choose not to?'

'The nature of the Seasonal Courts,' he said, 'is linked to their High Lords, whose magic and will keeps them in eternal spring, or winter, or fall, or summer. It has always been like that- some sort of strange stagnation. But the Solar Courts- Day, Dawn, and Night- are of a more... symbolic nature. We might be powerful, but even we cannot alter the sun's path or strength. Tea?'

The sunlight danced along the curve of the silver teapot. I kept my eager nod to a restrained dip of my chin. 'But you will find,' Rhysand went on, pouring a cup for me,' that our nights are more spectacular- so spectacular that some in my territory even awaken at sunset and go to bed at dawn, just to live under the starlight.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Завжди існуватимуть жадібні люди. Зрештою вони завжди там, де є (чи мали би бути) гроші. Але жадібні люди шахраюватимуть чи дозволятимуть собі недбало ставитися, лише якщо відчуватимуть, що навряд чи їхній злочин помітять, чи суворо покарають за нього.”
― Niall Ferguson, The Great Degeneration

“Outside the state structure there is just about as much fear of the courts as there is of income tax among our non-salaried class”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“So, the courts are our protectors. But on occasion we have to strain to comprehend why they keep looking the other way.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“The ‘law in books�� v. the ‘law in action”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Nothing, but nothing happened.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“The courts, and, of course, the support of our readers, were our only dykes.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“But it is also true that sometimes I have had to watch helplessly as the courts could not be persuaded to do what seemed clearly within their power...”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Rulings �� or laws �� are so far ahead of reality; or if Courts, having decreed a remedy, do not follow up to ensure that it is being adhered to...”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“he air we breathe in Delhi this winter is much cleaner than it was two or three winters ago; fewer pollutants are being dumped into the Yamuna. Each of these turnarounds is traceable solely to the directions that the Supreme Court gave.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“That question should have struck the Court.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Can we keep up at this pace?”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Before parting, we place on record our deep anguish ��”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences