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“Nós vivemos no e segundo o Direito. Ele faz de nós o que somos: cidadãos, empregados, médicos, cônjuges e proprietários. É espada, escudo e ameaça: lutamos por nosso salário, recusamo-nos a pagar nosso aluguel, somos obrigados a pagar multas ou mandados para a cadeia, tudo em nome do que nosso soberano abstrato e etéreo, o Direito, estabeleceu. E "discutimos" o que ele estabeleceu, mesmo quando os livros que supostamente registram seus comandos e diretivas estão silentes; nós agimos então como se o Direito apenas tivesse murmurado sua ordem, demasiado baixo para ser ouvida com nitidez. Nós somos súditos do império do Direito, vassalos de seus métodos e ideais, subjugados em espírito quando debatemos o que devemos portanto fazer.”

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We live in and by the law. It makes us what we are: citizens and employees and doctors and spouses and people who own things. It is sword, shield, and menace: we insist on our wage, or refuse to pay our rent, or are forced to forfeit penalties, or are closed up in jail, all in the name of what our abstract and ethereal sovereign, the law, has decreed. And we argue about what it has decreed, even when the books that are supposed to record its commands and directions are silent; we act then as if law had muttered its doom, too low to be heard distinctly. We are subjects of law's empire, liegemen to its methods and ideals, bound in spirit while we debate what we must therefore do.
Preface to Law's Empire

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“Se é para sermos moral e eticamente responsáveis, não pode haver retorno uma vez que descobrimos, como descobrimos, que alguns dos presupostos mais fundamentais desses valores estão equivocados. Brincar de Deus é certamente brincar com fogo. Mas é aquilo que nós mortais fizemos desde Prometeu, o santo patroeiro das descobertas perigosas. Nós brincamos com fogo e assumimos as conseqüências, porque a alternativa é a convardia em face do desconhecido.”

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"If we are to be morally and ethically responsible, there can be no turning back once we find, as we have found, that some of the most basic presuppositions of these values are mistaken. Playing God is indeed playing with fire. But that is what we mortals have done since Prometheus, the patron saint of dangerous discoveries. We play with fire and take the consequences, because the alternative is cowardice in the face of the unknown."
Sovereign Virtue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000, p. 446

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Ronald Dworkin: Frases em inglês

“Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction.”

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Ronald Dworkin livro Taking Rights Seriously

Taking Rights Seriously (1978), p. 31
Contexto: Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?"

“If we are to be morally and ethically responsible, there can be no turning back once we find, as we have found, that some of the most basic presuppositions of these values are mistaken. Playing God is indeed playing with fire. But that is what we mortals have done since Prometheus, the patron saint of dangerous discoveries. We play with fire and take the consequences, because the alternative is cowardice in the face of the unknown.”

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Ronald Dworkin

Sovereign Virtue (2000), p. 446

“We live in and by the law. It makes us what we are: citizens and employees and doctors and spouses and people who own things. It is sword, shield, and menace: we insist on our wage, or refuse to pay our rent, or are forced to forfeit penalties, or are closed up in jail, all in the name of what our abstract and ethereal sovereign, the law, has decreed. And we argue about what it has decreed, even when the books that are supposed to record its commands and directions are silent; we act then as if law had muttered its doom, too low to be heard distinctly. We are subjects of law's empire, liegemen to its methods and ideals, bound in spirit while we debate what we must therefore do.”

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Ronald Dworkin Law's Empire

Law's Empire (1986), Preface

“She ends her letter, characteristically, by picturing me and her other critics as indifferent to the suffering of women. But many feminists, including several who wrote or spoke to me about my review, regret her single-minded concentration on lurid sex. They think that though it has predictably attracted much publicity, it tends to stereotype women as victims, and takes attention from still urgent questions of economic, political, and professional equality.”

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Ronald Dworkin

"Pornography: An Exchange" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2310, response by Ronald Dworkin to Catherine Mackinnon, New York Review of Books 41(5), March 3, 1994.

“Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.”

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Ronald Dworkin

"Pornography: An Exchange" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2310, response by Ronald Dworkin to Catherine Mackinnon, New York Review of Books 41(5), March 3, 1994.