“Based on this principle, we rule it illegal to use civilians as human shields, and we also rule it illegal to use civilians to pass military warnings from the army to those the army wants to arrest.”
Aharon Barak
“There may be civilians being used as human shields and at this point while it was dreadful, while it was unacceptable, while it was bestial, a pre-emptive attack into the city could have taken a bad situation and made it even worse.”
Mark Kimmitt
“The First Amendment is not a shield for illegal conduct by journalists, or journalists' sources.”
George Riley
“Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva!”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego like an automobile”
William Rootes
“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.”
