Moral principle is the foundation of law.

- Ronald Dworkin

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

- Ronald Dworkin

Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to o…

- Ronald Dworkin

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 …

- Ronald Dworkin

Balanced' is a code for 'denied': a right to free speech that must be 'balanced' against so exhaustive a list of other supposed values means a right …

- Ronald Dworkin

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

- Ronald Dworkin

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

- Ronald Dworkin

Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as s…

- Ronald Dworkin