No court can make time stand still.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Courts cannot stop the passage of time.
- In plain terms
- Time keeps moving even for courts.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept that time moves forward.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does time affect justice?
- Can laws ever stop time?
Another view
This ignores cases where time is paused, like in stays of execution.
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