Quotes About Legality

If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.

Bad people need a law to prove themselves but A good people don't need a law to prove themselves

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

An honest person will never commit criminal acts, but a criminal will readily engage in legal acts.

When, she wonders, did she stop being a child? The law says it was when she turned eighteen, but the law doesn't know her.

That's legally blind, I'm not legally blind Yes, she's illegally blind

Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true." Yeah, well, just because the law says it, that doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought about it, and decided it made sense.

There should be limits morally and legally as to how far you are willing to go to try to hurt someone and their family.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

Legality has become a poisonous dagger, with which one party stabs the other in the back.

The emptiness of mere majority calculus deprives legality of all persuasive power.

Without sense of contradiction, for example, once can today consider a dissolution of the Reichstag 'strictly legal,' even though it is, in fact, a coup d'etat, and, vice versa, a parliamentary dissolution might substantively conform to the spirit of the constitution, and yet not be legal. Such antitheses document the breakdown of a system of legality, which ends in a formalism and functionalism without substance or reference points.

The preexisting and presumed congruence and harmony of law and statute, justice and legality, substance and process dominated every detail of the legal thinking of the legislative state. Only through the acceptance of these parings was it possible to subordinate oneself to the rule of law precisely in the name of freedom.

If the assumptions underlying the legislative state of the parliamentary-democratic variety are no longer tenable, then closing one's eyes to the concrete constitutional situation and clinging to an absolute, 'value-neutral,' functionalist and formal concept of law, in order to save the system of legality, is not far off. The 'law,' then, is only the present decision of the momentary parliamentary majority.

Humanity knows no bounds to its inhumanity when it puts systems in place that justify its injustices. Legally

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Law is a bottomless pit.

One with the law is a majority.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.