As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

All I have to do is educate myself enough in the field to be able to do what I want. It's very practical.

Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought

This alleged action is repugnant to our common values, is contrary to our commands-approved tactical operating procedures, and is not sanctioned by this command,