{"quotes":[{"text":"Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it.","author":"Robert Black","tags":["cases","lawyers","legal","lose","win"],"id":3346,"author_id":"Robert+Black"},{"text":"Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!","author":"Bill Drayton","tags":["change","legal","foundation "],"id":14507,"author_id":"Bill+Drayton"},{"text":"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.","author":"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn","tags":["life","man","legal "],"id":15323,"author_id":"Aleksandr+Solzhenitsyn"},{"text":"What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["law","legal","victory "],"id":16515,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"},{"text":"Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["justice","laws","legal"],"id":17367,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense. ","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["justice","giving","legal "],"id":19907,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.","author":"Mike Pence","tags":["legal","research","country "],"id":20143,"author_id":"Mike+Pence"},{"text":"There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["accomodation","chaos","corruption","disparity","epiphany","illegal","irony","law","legal","observations","paradox","unavoidable","vice","vile","waste"],"id":20815,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although there were moments when she missed her children, her main response to living apart from her husband was relief…[H]er current solitude was not just a respite, it was a time to contemplate her future options. Nina marveled that she had choices to consider.","author":"Jean Elson","tags":["adultery","charleston","courtroom-drama","divorce","divorce","divorces","extreme-cruelty","gross-misbehavior","infidelity","infidelity-in-marriage","infidelity-in-relationships","james-walker","legal","marriage","marriage","newport","nina-walker","progressive-era","rhode-island","wickedness","women-studies"],"id":21998,"author_id":"Jean+Elson"},{"text":"For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.","author":"Nursultan Nazarbayev","tags":["legal","people","living "],"id":23657,"author_id":"Nursultan+Nazarbayev"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":143,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}