William Mcilvanney Quotes

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice. - William Mcilvanney

We must improve the shared conditions in which we live, of course, but the essential purpose of that will be in order to inhabit more fully the necessary and unalterable terms of our existence. Take away the avoidable injustices of some lives that we may humanly share in the unavoidable injustice that is in all our lives. - William Mcilvanney

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding. - William Mcilvanney

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. - William Mcilvanney

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