Roscoe Pound famous quotes

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.
-- Roscoe Pound

#Law #Reason

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
-- Roscoe Pound

#Respect #Law #Stills

Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.
-- Roscoe Pound

#Agency #Law #Civilization

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.
-- Roscoe Pound

#Kings #Work #Government

Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.
-- Roscoe Pound

#Law #Lawlessness #Administration

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.