Quotes by Gordimer, Nadine

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing effort >>

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven >>

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose fa >>

Quotations about Law and Lawyers

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and or >>

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. >>

Where there is no law there is no transgression. >>

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-élitist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine