Quotes about law
law people independence
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds. Frederic Bastiat
law acting may
The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.
law long purpose
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.
law doe property
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.
law injustice organize
Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.
law giving doe
The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.
law evil liberty
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
law rights trying
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property rights. If you cannot do so, then you must agree that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.
law liberty alternatives
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
law two greed
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.
law judging police
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.
law littles too-much
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. Derek Bok
law-of-attraction secret-law-of-attraction attraction
When you visualize, then you materialize. Denis Waitley
law substance income
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. Dee Hock
law rights hair
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights. Dick Durbin
law practice rights
It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's time for us to look at the practices of corporations and holding them accountable for violations of law which often go unnoticed because there is very little regulation. Dennis Kucinich
law meditation silence
Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality. Deepak Chopra
law-of-attraction self support
When you make contact with your Higher Self, you'll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all you desire
law-of-attraction desire littles
Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.
law nsa use
Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they can use to justify indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance operations that were at best unwittingly authorized by lawmakers. Edward Snowden
law nsa fads
One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.
law nsa government
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice - that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
law secret executive-power
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.
law humanity citizens
Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.
law nsa excess
Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.
law sometimes break
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
law battle athens
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner. Edward Everett
law history curiosity
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle. Edward Gibbon
law games history
During the games of the Circus, he had, imprudently or designedly, performed the manumission of a slave in the presence of the consul. The moment he was reminded that he had trespassed on the jurisdiction of another magistrate, he condemned himself to pay a fine of ten pounds of gold, and embraced this public occasion of declaring to the world that he was subject, like the rest of his fellow-citizens, to the laws, and even to the forms, of the republic.
law punishment giving
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
lawyer
Let us kill all lawyers William Shakespeare
law challenges inheritance
I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.
law bars can-do
When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.