Jurisprudence

🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi

Politics

nonviolence

1869–1948

""The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.""

🇫🇷Gustave Flaubert

Literature

Realism

1821–1880

"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. (18 March 1857)"

🇺🇸Hillary Clinton

Politics

b. 1947

"Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."

Vladimir Putin

Politics

Russian nationalism

1911–1999

"Even 50 years ago, the streets of Leningrad taught me one thing: if a fight is inevitable, go and fight first."

🇺🇸John T. Noonan Jr.

Law

1926–2017

"In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine."

🇷🇺Alexei Navalny

Science

1976–2024

"I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed."

Christian Wolff

Mathematics

rationalism

1679–1754

"Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable."

"A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods and our research subjects ."

🇮🇱Menachem Elon

Politics

1923–2013

"The body of the legal system needs a soul and sometimes even an additional soul"

🇬🇧H. L. A. Hart

Philosophy

analytic philosophy

1907–1992

"Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart on Oxford Reference"

🇺🇸Bernard Harcourt

Law

b. 1963

"The different strands of radical thought seek to lift a veil from our eyes in order to emancipate us from domination, cowardice, or repression. They unmask in order to liberate."