The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Imperfection Quotes
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.
