Law Quotes - Page 39

• Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.

  Craig Ferguson

  Pain, Mind, Resistance

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", 2005-2014.

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• There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.

  Michael Foot

  Attitude, Judging, Suits

  ITV's "People and Politics", May 9, 1974.

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• Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Reality, Effectiveness, Simplicity

  "Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers". Book by Murray Gell-Mann and Harald Fritzsch, 2010.

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• Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Exercise, Rights, Liberty

  "Between Facts and Norms". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1992.

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• What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.

  Pauline Hanson

  Beautiful, Country, People

  ABC1 "Enough Rope", September 20, 2004.

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• Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U.S. Marines.

  Warren G. Harding

  Marine, Men, West Indies

  "Democracy at the Point of Bayonets". Book by Mark Penceny, 1999.

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• Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.

  James Inhofe

  White, Agency, Alcohol

  Senate Hearing 109-947 before Committee on Environment and Public Works, May 18, 2005.

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• The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

  Van Jones

  Moving, Justice, Political

  The Nation, Volume 287, 2008.

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• Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set of laws for governing an empire, prescribed death for anyone who harbored a fugitive or otherwise helped a slave to escape. The relationship between the law and bondage goes back even farther: Indeed, the oldest extant legal documents don't concern the sale of land, houses, or even animals, but slaves.

  Derrick Jensen

  Animal, Land, House

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.60, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

  Alan Keyes

  Gun, Self, Enforcement

  Second Debate between Alan Keyes & Barack Obama, votesmart.org. October 21, 2004.

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• A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Freedom Of Speech, Criminals, Example

  "Excerpts From Opinions in Ruling on the Child Pornography Prevention Act". www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2002.

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• I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times in a way that's completely consistent with the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in.

  Elena Kagan

  Thinking, People, Justice

  C-Span Interview, www.c-span.org. December 09, 2010.

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• As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle.

  Daniel De Leon

  Mean, Divorce, Cutting

  "Trimming the Poodle". "The Daily People" Newspaper, November 2, 1908.

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• If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

  Jaron Lanier

  Memories, Resources, Faster

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge". Book edited by John Brockman, 2003.

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• To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Wise, Taken, Reflection

  Letter to Camille Desmoulins on June 24, 1792. "Oeuvres de Camille Desmoulins", p. 76ff, 1874.

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• The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Independence, Wish

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.24, University of Michigan Press

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• To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.

  Thomas Malthus

  People, Evil, May

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

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• I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

  Thomas Malthus

  Real, Doubt, England

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

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• These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Military, Struggle, Political

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• I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.

  Vladimir Putin

  Stress, Support, Regimes

  Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, en.kremlin.ru. May 10, 2006.

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• What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.

  Ernestine Rose

  Fashion, Rights, Class

  "The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, Syracuse". Book by Carol A. Kolmerten (p.49), 1999.

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• There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

  John Rawls

  Government, Essentials, Tasks

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.237, Harvard University Press

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• How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Father, Thinking, People

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• Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

  Dan Simmons

  Being Ignored, Habit, Ignored

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.422, Spectra

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• A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

  John Paul Stevens

  Believe, Democracy, Function

  Citizens United, Appellant v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, 2010.

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