Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Foucault

Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.

Michel Foucault

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

Michael K. Powell

We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.

Michael Josephson

Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows.

Marie Stopes

The most complete human being is he or she who consciously or unconsciously obeys the profound physical laws of our being in such a way that the spirit receives as much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible.

Mark Zandi

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

Mark Zuckerberg

If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation.

Ted Olson

It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to defend a law. I don't know what is going through the [Obama] administration's thought process on 'don't ask, don't tell.' It would be appropriate for them to say 'the law has been deemed unconstitutional, we are not going to seek further review of that.'

Ted Nugent

How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.

Ted Nugent

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

Ted Nugent

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

Ted Nugent

When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.

Ted Cruz

The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.

Ted Cruz

I've laid out a very, very detailed immigration plan on my website, tedcruz.org. It's 11 pages of existing federal law and in particular the question of what to do with people who are here now.

Ted Cruz

Do you know how many aliens Bill Clinton deported? 12 million. Do you know how many illegal aliens, George W. Bush deported? 10 million. We can enforce the laws and if we secure the border, that solves the problem. And as president I will solve this problem and secure the border.

Ted Cruz

You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.

Ted Cruz

We are still a nation of laws. You just have to check with Barack Obama every day to see what they are.

Ted Cruz

Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Theodore Roosevelt

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Theodore Roosevelt

Argument weak; speak loudly!

Theodore Roosevelt

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

Theodore Roosevelt

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

Theodore Roosevelt

To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

Theodore Roosevelt

The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.

Theodore Roosevelt

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Theodor Herzl

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

Theodor Herzl

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Theodor Adorno

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

Theodor Adorno

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Thaddeus Stevens

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Thaddeus Stevens

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.