“I don t see any reason to let law interfere with justice around here. We never did before.”
“God will always deliver the truth when you have enough faith to believe in miracles.”
“People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn t true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless.”
“Audio of interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=... Savile was not only abusing all children with or without disabilities in group settings or in hospital settings, he was also invoking belief systems, doing rituals, making children believe that he had extra powers and that if they didn t obey him they would be published in an after life. There are special things in, especially, for example, Alistair Crowley that can be used to frighten children even more, but the use of cloaks, of making spells, of making threats, of threatening what will happen after death too is something that the 5 different people that spoke to me about Jimmy Savile said that he d been part of. - Dr Valerie Sinason, Clinic for Dissociative Studies, London”
“You cannot sensibly expect a starving God-fearing man to honor the 8th commandment.”
“Law does, because God said so! ; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so.”
“Those who hold to the Christian faith see law as an ultimate order of the universe. It is the invariable factor in a variable world, the unchanging order in a changing universe. Law for the Christian is thus absolute, final, and an aspect of God s creation and a manifestation of His nature. In terms of this, the Christian can hold that right is right, and wrong is wrong, that good and evil are unchanging moral categories rather than relative terms. From an evolutionary perspective, however, we have a very different concept of law. The universe is evolving, and the one constant factor is change. It is impossible therefore to speak of any absolute law. The universe has evolved by means of chance variations, and no law has any ultimacy or absolute truth. As a result when we talk about law, we are talking about social customs or mores and about statistical averages. Social customs change, and what was law to the ancient Gauls is not law to the modern Frenchmen. We can expect men s ideas of law to change as their societies change and evolve. Moreover, statistics give us an average and a mean which determine normality, and our ideas of law are governed by what is customary and socially accepted.”
“Audio of interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=... No I haven t been in a ceremony but I ve seen the marks on them, I ve seen the terror they re in and I ve seen how they were before such events happened and how they are when they speak about it, how consistent they are in other things they say, so that there has been no reason from a psychological point of view to doubt their capacity to give good evidence, but its the police who need to find the proper corroboration. - Dr Valerie Sinason, Clinic for Dissociative Studies, London - talks about Private Eye magazine s suggestion that she invented the story published in the Express and that no abuse existed”
“Everybody is talking about the Law of Attraction. Nobody is talking about the Law of Action.”
“Audio of interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=... it s not surprising that in that first group I worked with over 20 years ago I had 2 accounts of Jimmy Savile being an abuser where I did support some people to go to the police but it was seen as something impossible to consider at the time. We have improved a lot as a society in the last 20 years in accepting the reality of abuse, even though it s still so hard for us. When we look at adults who were abused in childhood we find that nearly all of them had told somebody... The culture of the police has changed dramatically but 20 years ago when even counselors and social workers didn t think the abuse could be so widespread the police were obviously part of that culture too. I mean it s hard to realise that in the 1980s there was a point where it was thought that there were only 486 children on the abuse register. Now the government accepts that 1 in 4 adults will have been abused at some point in their lives. That is a huge change. This is really different for any survivors listening now if a police officer doesn t listen sympathetically and offer a believing response then something has gone wrong because the police really do have this in their guidelines now. - Dr Valerie Sinason, Clinic for Dissociative Studies, London”
“Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.”
“They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations.”
“How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?”
“…a törvény könyörtelen következetességében néha enyhének és erőtlennek látszott az idő önkényével szemben.”
“…mindegyre inkább „apa” volt, megfellebbezhetetlen, pontos, kérdező és válaszoló, de kissé úgy, ahogy az orvos, vagy …igen, ahogy a bíró kérdez.”
“There is a moment in the tractate Menahot when the Rabbis imagine what takes place when Moses ascends Mount Sinai to receive the Torah. In this account (there are several) Moses ascends to heaven, where he finds God busily adding crownlike ornaments to the letters of the Torah. Moses asks God what He is doing and God explains that in the future there will be a man named Akiva, son of Joseph, who will base a huge mountain of Jewish law on these very orthographic ornaments. Intrigued, Moses asks God to show this man to him. Moses is told to go back eighteen rows, and suddenly, as in a dream, Moses is in a classroom, class is in session and the teacher is none other than Rabbi Akiva. Moses has been told to go to the back of the study house because that is where the youngest and least educated students sit. Akiva, the great first-century sage, is explaining Torah to his disciples, but Moses is completely unable to follow the lesson. It is far too complicated for him. He is filled with sadness when, suddenly, one of the disciples asks Akiva how he knows something is true and Akiva answers: It is derived from a law given to Moses on Mount Sinai. Upon hearing this answer, Moses is satisfied - though he can t resist asking why, if such brilliant men as Akiva exist, Moses needs to be the one to deliver the Torah. At this point God loses patience and tells Moses, Silence, it s my will.”
“God is Love but He also is the Lawgiver”