Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I got interested in public service because I really felt like 'there but for the grace of God go I' in a… — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my… — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Access to our civil courts has been severely restricted by the combination of: the removal of legal aid from some cases based… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Modi has always been very particular about law and order. He believes in fairness and justice, and encouraged us to simply work… — Amit Shah Copy Share Image
The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
No. 1, it [amnesty for illegal aliens] demoralizes the people that are going through the legal process. It's a very clear signal… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove… — Sima Qian Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When it comes to protecting workers, labour conditions, labour legislation, the rights for collective bargaining, when you look at our environmental standards,… — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
“The common law … is no longer simple or straightforward. Instead it is complicated, often obscure and usually costly, so it can… — Courtenay Bryce Copy Share Image
Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making,… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“That is a good example of why efficient and trustworthy courts are so important. Without them, people are left to their own… — Paul Marlowe Copy Share Image
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image