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Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists... Tom Robbins
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy)Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism)Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism)Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic) Immanuel Kant
Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of... Judith Butler
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. Thomas Jefferson
Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long... Margaret Thatcher
Huey Newton quote: "Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be..."
Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws. Huey Newton
Oliver Goldsmith quote: "law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law"
law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law Oliver Goldsmith
Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do... Ursula K. Le Guin
Gloria Steinem quote: "Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't,..."
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. Gloria Steinem
Oliver Goldsmith quote: "Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith
Arthur Goldberg quote: "Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by..."
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford. Arthur Goldberg
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. Harriet Martineau
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. Rutherford B. Hayes
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. Rick Warren
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. Charles de Secondat

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