Quotes About Legality

Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

First, where the law is the major source for bioethics, morality is too easily confused with legality and moral questions too quickly reduced to legal questions. Moreover, the law is better at telling us what not to do than at providing ends and goals worthy of our humanity.

People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles.

In many corners the concept of DACA is a fair and compassionate one, giving reprieve to children brought into the country illegally by their parents. But the way the program is lawfully mandated and implemented matters.

The law is cruel.

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

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

Nothing he has ever done has been tainted by legality [Robert Moses quoting an anecdote about himself].

Do You Have a PROBLEM? Nothing is illegal—it isn't what you do; it's the way that you do it.

Not everything was legal, but nothing was immoral, and that was my guide these days.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality.

Though Toyota or Argentina has neither a body nor a mind, they are subject to international laws, they can own land and money, and they can sue and be sued in court. We might soon grant similar status to algorithms.

I support making sure that there are legal protects for everyone.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

It is against the law to use polar bear meat to make burgers.

I am against the death penalty.

First step: Build the wall. Second step: Let ICE do its job. Third step: Stop importing jihadists and welfare recipients. Fourth step: enforce e-verify to protect American jobs. Fifth step: prosecute social security card/ID theft/voting fraud.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.'