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Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Sandra Day O'Connor |

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Frank Herbert |

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Cornelius Tacitus |

To follow foolish precedents, and winkWith both our eyes, is easier than to think.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Cowper |

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Doug Coupland |