In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to…

If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not…

— Edward Snowden

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly…

— Blase J. Cupich

American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of…

— James Madison

We have to have better intelligence. We have to have better interdiction capabilities. And so the issue is not how much we spend or…

— Barack Obama

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

— Thomas Jefferson

There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands…

— John F. Kerry

I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take…

— John F. Kerry

“When the government promptly changed the range of interdiction to twelve miles, what do you suppose the partiers did? They created a Twelve Mile…

— Ted Haigh

First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and…

— Michel de Certeau

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

— William Irwin Thompson

“In Hobbes’ state of nature, when a male individual conquers (contracts with) a female individual he becomes her sexual master and she becomes his…

— Carole Pateman

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided…

— Immanuel Kant

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,…

— Umair Haque