Particular Cases Quotes

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.

To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.