Quotes about law
law steps needs
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop. Barry Diller
law effort community
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. Barney Frank
law choices france
In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them. Audrey Tautou
law say-anything matter
I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself. August Wilson
law accountability abuse
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. Atifete Jahjaga
law people parliament
Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law. Arthur Scargill
law levels want
To be clear, we [the Department of Education] want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department. Arne Duncan
law police criminals
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions. Antonio Villaraigosa
law differences giving
In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen: ... Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Frederic Bastiat
law voting liberty
The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property. Frederic Bastiat
law justice liberty
...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent. Frederic Bastiat
law two evil
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose. Frederic Bastiat
law organization government
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. Frederic Bastiat
law greed political
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it. Frederic Bastiat
law justice principles
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice... Frederic Bastiat
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. Frederic Bastiat
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. Frederic Bastiat
law doe property
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property. Frederic Bastiat
law injustice organize
Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice. Frederic Bastiat
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. Frederic Bastiat
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. Frederic Bastiat
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. Frederic Bastiat
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. Frederic Bastiat
law two greed
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy. Frederic Bastiat
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. Frederic Bastiat
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 Deepak Chopra