Jean Hackel > Quotes

“In a society that consists of “a loose federation of groups with their own languages, customers, taboos, freedoms, courting habits and senses of morality...tolerance demands that no one group may be allowed to impose its own moral views, however strongly held, upon another; still less should they be able to use the severe sanctions of the criminal law to do so. The law...is at its best when it is enforcing practical remedies for specific crimes; it is at its worst when it tries to enforce the morality of one group in society upon another which may, for quite sincere and logical reasons, refuse to accept it.”
---Sir John Mortimer, British barrister and novelist”
― Jean Hackel