The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: war law apology authority crime taxes capital punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I got to make just one law, it would be that the men who make the decisions to drop bombs would first, every time, have to spend one whole day taking care of a baby. We were not made to do this killing thing, I swear. Back up. It's a big mistake. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Tags: war law children bombs killing care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. —Immanuel Kant More about this quote Tags: action law morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, on the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism. —Peggy Noonan More about this quote Tags: heroism law money appreciation faithfulness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. —Samuel Daniel More about this quote Tags: law art nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. —Charlie Chaplin More about this quote Tags: love humor law pain comedy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. —John Adams More about this quote Tags: law shame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: justice law harm contracts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. More about this quote Tags: law confusion lawyers smoke haze Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. —Boethius More about this quote Tags: love law Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: law anarchy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening. —Alexander Woollcott More about this quote Tags: health law morality illegal fattening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: humor cynicism law crime Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: law crime corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. —Eric Ambler More about this quote Tags: law efficiency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email