Quotes About Law

Capital punishment could not be justified in any society calling itself civilized.

We see then, in the first years of the Constitution, that some of its provisions—even those paraded most flamboyantly (like the First Amendment)—might be treated lightly. Others (like the power to tax) would be powerfully enforced.

I told of Henry David Thoreau's decision to break the law in protest against our invasion of Mexico in 1846, and began to give a brief history of civil disobedience in the United States.

And even the privileged minority—must it not reconsider, with that practicality which even privilege cannot abolish, the value of its privileges, when they become threatened by the anger of the sacrificed, whether in organized rebellion, unorganized riot, or simply those brutal individual acts of desperation labeled crimes by law and the state?

Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags.

I said, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern blacks did, as antiwar protesters did.

Very soon after the Fourteenth Amendment became law, the Supreme Court began to demolish it as a protection for blacks, and to develop it as a protection for corporations.

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In modern times, exploitation is disguised—it is accomplished by law, which has the look of neutrality and fairness.

If you are going to break the law, do it with two thousand people … and Mozart.

By the middle of the nineteenth century the legal system had been reshaped to the advantage of men of commerce and industry at the expense of farmers, workers, consumers, and other less powerful groups within the society…. it actively promoted a legal redistribution of wealth against the weakest groups in the society.

Blackstone's Commentaries, which said: "So great is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the common good of the whole community.

And if you acknowledged cleanliness,oder, and the law, you also had to acknowledge the police.

After seizing the West Bank in 1967, Israel unilaterally annexed 72 square kilometers, including the eastern part of Jerusalem and land that belonged to 28 surrounding West Bank villages, to the Jerusalem municipality. Human Rights Watch is not aware of any other country, with the recent exception of the United States under President Donald Trump, that recognizes Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem, which remains occupied territory under international law.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

It may be that America is developing a whole new category of essentially social criminals Ã¢â'¬Â¦ persons who threaten the police and the traditional social structure even when they are breaking no law Ã¢â'¬Â¦ because they view The Law with contempt and the police with distrust, and this abiding resentment can explode without warning at the slightest provocation.

Being arrested in any airport is bad, but being arrested in the Miami airport is terrifying.

Any lawyer who says there's no such thing as rape should be hauled out to a public place by three large perverts and buggered at high noon, with all his clients watching.

Animals don't hire lawyers

Omnibus Safe Streets & Crime Control Act of 1968, a genuinely

DON'T GAMBLE WITH MARIJUANA! IN NEVADA: POSSESSION—20 YEARS SALE—LIFE!

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

Only law firm out there's called Smith and Wesson.

she belonged to the law as some women had once been brides of Christ.