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las políticas más exitosas son aquellas que castigan directamente el mal uso, como las sentencias a prisión obligatorias por cualquier crimen que envuelva un arma. En California y en otros lugares, tales medidas han reducido el crimen sustancialmente.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. Acts 13:39
~ Steven D. Mathewson
As Lawrence Lessig has so persuasively argued over the years, there is nothing "natural" about the artificial scarcity of intellectual property law.
~ Steven Johnson
What made Bell Labs fundamentally different had as much to do with antitrust law as the geniuses it attracted.
~ Steven Johnson
BOYLE'S LAW (1662)
~ Steven Johnson
HOOKE'S LAW (1676)
~ Steven Johnson
PROPERTY" GENERALLY      A. General definition: A person may be said to hold a property interest, in the broadest sense, if he has any right which the law will protect against infringement by others.
~ Steven L. Emanuel
The fashion accessories of Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice, express the logic succinctly: (1) scales; (2) blindfold; (3) sword.
~ Steven Pinker
Violence between the combatants may be called war; violence by the bystander against the combatants may be called law. The Leviathan theory, in a nutshell, is that law is better than war.
~ Steven Pinker
In 18th-century England this cronyism gave way to open economies in which anyone could sell anything to anyone, and their transactions were protected by the rule of law, property rights, enforceable contracts, and institutions like banks, corporations, and government agencies that run by fiduciary duties rather than personal connections.
~ Steven Pinker
A regime that trawls for drug users or other petty delinquents will net a certain number of violent people as bycatch, further thinning the ranks of the violent people who remain on the streets. Incarceration
~ Steven Pinker
The American Superfund law calls for eliminating certain pollutants from the environment completely, though removing the last 10 percent may cost more than the first 90 percent.
~ Steven Pinker
While Trump has cultivated a reputation for law and order, he is viscerally uninterested in evidence-based policy that would distinguish effective crime-prevention measures from useless tough talk.
~ Steven Pinker
Many of our fiercest controversies involve decisions on how to reconcile fuzzy family resemblance concepts with the classical categories demanded by logic and law.
~ Steven Pinker
Also, a state without an effective police and judiciary had to make a little punishment go a long way.
~ Steven Pinker
Many hours of law-school argumentation have been spent on what to do with a man who stabs a corpse thinking it is his sleeping enemy, or whether it makes sense to charge a shooter with attempted murder if the nearest hospital is five minutes away and his victim survives, but to charge him with murder if the nearest hospital is fifteen minutes away and the victim succumbs.
~ Steven Pinker
The law may be an ass, but it is a disinterested ass, and it can weigh harms without the self-serving distortions of the perpetrator or the victim.
~ Steven Pinker
Because our propositional reasoning frees us from similarity and stereotypes, it enables the highest achievements of human rationality, such as science, morality, and law.
~ Steven Pinker
Weber's Law: for an increase in intensity to be noticeable, it must be a constant proportion of the existing intensity.
~ Steven Pinker
Nature is a hanging judge
~ Steven Pinker
In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
~ William Howard Taft