Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.