Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic… — Majid Khadduri Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality.… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As Joel Goldsmith said, in the presence of the God realized, the laws of the material world do not apply. That's why… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
A country, people, and society are in a sorry state when the guardians of its democratic values and the rule of law… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience… — John Selden Copy Share Image
A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw did a essay on Television about the U.S.district courts are the trial courts serving as the original point of entry… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He in whose heart the law was, and who alone of all mankind was content to do it, His sacrifice alone can… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to… — William Everson Copy Share Image
I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious.… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parameters of the syndrome, nor… — Trouble and Strife Copy Share Image
“Any law that makes self-defense illegal or impractical is an illegitimate law, because such a law ultimately subjects people to the criminal… — Charl Van Wyk Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the Judges in the courts of law are more likely to be exposed to conflicts and disputes where the utility of… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Traditional English, Dutch, French, and Spanish law didn’t say that corporations are people. The U.S. Constitution wasn’t written with that idea; corporations… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I… — Esha Gupta Copy Share Image
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“However, this court is constrained by law, and under the law, I can only conclude that the Government has not violated FOIA… — Colleen McMahon Copy Share Image
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Which is why I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Contrary to the myth that the U.K. respects decisions of the Strasbourg court but many other adherent states do not, the convention… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image