Biology Quote by Jean Genet

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Judges live with shadows behind them.”

— Jane Gardam

“Remember especially that you cannot be the judge of anyone. For there can be no judge of a criminal on earth until the judge…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The significance test is the detective, not the judge.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow…

— Mark the Evangelist

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

— Randall Jarrell

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man…

— Jane Yolen

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of…

— Cassandra Clare

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

— Oscar Wilde

“The towering lie of the criminal justice system—that we can reliably determine the truth, that we can know “beyond a reasonable doubt” who is…

— William Landay

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

— Walt Whitman