Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.