The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.
The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.
There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.
It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.
There is no magic in words.
We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.
Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.
Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.
A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.
A Court of equity knows its own province.
I’m not people, I only eat them.
Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.
I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.
In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i’m a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos.
I wasn’t born, I was unleashed.
Patience to the spider.
Sure. My ego’s had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let’s make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron.
He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you’d have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.
You’d be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.
It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it’s lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.