The belief in political fixity, the sanctity of a form hallowed by tradition, is an invitation to revolt and revolution.
John Dewey
#twisdom #progress
Category Archives: jurisprudence
Power of Mystery
There can be no prestige without mystery.
Charles de Gaulle
#twisdom #authority
Law & Society
The more corrupt the commonwealth the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus
#twisdom #law
Certain Illusion
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
O.W. Holmes, Jr.
#twisdom #humility
Realist Utopia
Political realism is also a utopia, one with a lot of blood on its hands.
Jacques Rancière
Law’s Soul
It is not the words of a law but their internal sense that makes law.
J.M.Harlan
#twisdom #jurisprudence
People’s Justice
Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.
Roscoe Pound
#twisdom #polSci
Theory Self
There is no theory that is not a fragment of an autobiography.
Valéry
#twisdom #theory
System Thinking
If a revolution destroys a government but retains its patterns of thought, then it will reproduce the government.
Robert Pirsig
#twisdom #philo #pols
Social Ideal
What-ought-to-be has first place in social science.
Roscoe Pound
#twisdom #philo #law
