Famous quotes containing the words legal, tender and/or act:
“There are ... two minimum conditions necessary and sufficient for the existence of a legal system. On the one hand those rules of behavior which are valid according to the system’s ultimate criteria of validity must be generally obeyed, and on the other hand, its rules of recognition specifying the criteria of legal validity and its rules of change and adjudication must be effectively accepted as common public standards of official behavior by its officials.”
—H.L.A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus)
“Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things.
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“You can’t take back an act you were able to think.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
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