| I think we get into law and legalism, and we don't understand that it's really, really human to err. |
| As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other. |
| What it amounts to is the idea of moral legalism, that one should outlaw all wrongdoing. |
| Less often considered is whether this ascendant legalism is good or bad for global prosperity and stability. |
| Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty. |
| And none of these ancient writers has seemed to me to lead to any sort of legalism. |
