South African Law Quotes

#1. Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

Gore Vidal

#2. In the criminal law [ ... ] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.

Pius Langa

#3. In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.

Rick Derringer

#4. For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I
survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II
a self-fulfillment focus ... Love's definition is in a transition.

Warren Farrell

#5. Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence.

H.C. Nicholas

#6. When President Roosevelt signed Social Security into law in 1935, 65 percent of African Americans nationally and between 70 and 80 percent in the South were ineligible.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?'
That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.'
Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.

Donita K. Paul

#9. Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad legislation.

Albie Sachs

#10. Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion."
"No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

Cassandra Clare

#11. Never mock a sin of mine until you have walked a mile in my moccasins

Neil Gevisser

#12. When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

David D. Burns

#13. Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

Blaise Pascal

#14. Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

Lawrence Lessig

#15. I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

Drew Magary

#16. Europe is made of history,
America of philosophy,
Asia of prosperity,
and Africa of opportunity.

Sami Leino