Felix Dennis Quotes

In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.

To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.