Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
~ Iain Banks
Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.
~ Shereen El Feki
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.
~ Kendrick Meek
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
~ Alexis Korner
Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
~ Stieg Larsson
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
~ Felix Frankfurter
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
~ Bertrand Russell
