Quotes About Legality

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

You know that recent Supreme Court ruling where a husband can legally murder his wife if he can prove she wouldn't under any circumstances give him a divorce?

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

We must all agree that legality would be a fine thing for social scoundrelism IF THERE WERE NO GOD.

Was it that bureaucracy, taken to extremes, became oppression? Or that oppression needed the fiction of legality, a craving for the respectability that it could never have?

never permitted. Kester also taught me that a dated document became even more legal.

Those who enforce laws must also abide by them.

Murder is such an elastic term, isn't it? ("Mind Over Murder")

Just because it is legal to do, it does not make it an ethical, honorable, moral or professional choice.

Just because you have not been caught for doing it yet, does not make what you are doing legal.

I want to raise a toast and make you a Birthday wish. But since you've just turned 18, I'm sorry I can't legally do that! Happy 18th Birthday!

Doing what we should never be done: asking for money for what must remain free. The decision does not belong to each adult woman, but is imposed by collective laws. Prostitutes are the only workers whose alienation moves the upper class -- to the extent that women who have never lacked for anything are absolutely, smugly convinced that prostitution should not be legalized.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

C. S. Lewis shocked many people in his day when he came out in favor of allowing divorce, on the grounds that we Christians have no right to impose our morality on society at large. Although he would continue to oppose divorce on moral grounds, he maintained the distinction between morality and legality.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

The laws of man are made only to be broken, because they are stupid and unjust.

Providing information about how persons may end their life is not a crime, at least in the United States, or I would have spent many years behind bars!

The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?

No effort for autonomy or self-rule can succeed if it is approached illegally.