Quotes About Legality

What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.

I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

For being found guilty of a savage attack on a female jogger that only by the grace of God didn't kill her, the defendants were each sentenced to five to ten years in prison, except Richardson, who got five to fifteen years. Former congressman Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in prison for putting campaign money in the wrong account. All

in some states it was illegal to sell contraceptives to those who were unmarried.

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts you at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless.

It is time we realized that crimes without victims are like debts without creditors. They do not even exist.

what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it.

And then, to top off the joke, if that is what it is, there are the people with more income than anyone else who pay less tax than anyone else—that is, those with annual incomes of a million dollars or more who manage to find perfectly legal ways of paying no income tax at all.

Law and justice are not the same.

Do not let the focus on bakers and florists obscure this point: It is currently legal in most states to fire people for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender; to refuse to rent them apartments or hotel rooms; even to refuse to tow their cars or repair their furnaces. Should this change? Anderson and Girgis argue that it should not. 4.3.5

Successful crimes alone are justified.

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

Every judicial verdict on whatever crime defines and describes the context and conception of the law and executes transparent justice accordingly. Whereas, the presiding judge and a panel of judges stay away from their personal feelings of perception, sympathy, anger, or revenge on any point and measure; otherwise, verdict falls under the failure of fair-decision and becomes morally and legally ineffective and invalid.

One can describe and specify honesty and dishonesty, exemplifying as the majority vote constitutes and passes the law and rule; conversely, minority consensus disregards and violates that, denying the legality, without accountability.

Rights, laws, rules, and principles exist; however, not applied.

The legalized offense, as a veto, even having consensus, displays and depicts the United Nations and its organs.

si la moral quisiera apoyarse en sanciones legales fomentaría hábitos hipócritas, y si el derecho quisiera sancionar una moral se haría sectario, fomentando el desprecio a sus leyes.

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

On a similar principle they consider that to know right and wrong is nothing clever, because what the laws speak about it cannot be hard to understand. But this is not justice, except incidentally: it is when actions are done or awards are made in a certain way that they become just.

Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

When you look at the big issues post-9/11 in the United States, whether it's water boarding, warantless wire tapping, surveillance, Gitmo, black sites rendition, all of those have been legal. Nobody has gone to jail for those programs.

It is legal because I wish it.

the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.