Ronald Dworkin quotes
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“Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.”
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“Moral principle is the foundation of law.”
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“Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.”
-- Ronald DworkinSource : Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press
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“Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?”
-- Ronald DworkinSource : Ronald Dworkin (2013). “Taking Rights Seriously”, p.48, A&C Black
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“Balanced' is a code for 'denied': a right to free speech that must be 'balanced' against so exhaustive a list of other supposed values means a right that can be exercised only when those in power judge that the speech in question is innocuous to them.”
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“What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.”
-- Ronald DworkinSource : Ronald Dworkin (2013). “Taking Rights Seriously”, p.305, A&C Black
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“Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.”
-- Ronald DworkinSource : "Pornography: An Exchange". Ronald Dworkin's reply to "Women and Pornography" by Catherine A. MacKinnon, New York Review of Books, Volume 41, No. 5, www.nybooks.com. March 3, 1994.
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Source : Abdullah Yusuf Ali (2004). “The Meaning of the Holy Qu'ran”, Amana Pubns
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“We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.”
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“We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
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