Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order.” — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones,… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Guantánamo Bay's motto: 'Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.' Four adjectives describing one sick joke.” — Rodney Ulyate Copy Share Image
Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality. — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under That's grand, then it moves… — Dara O Briain Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“How long?’ ‘As long as it takes. Your time will be best spent acquiring a gift appropriate to the illegality of what… — Jodi Taylor Copy Share Image
China has a history of thousands of years of feudalism and is still lacking in socialist democracy and socialist legality. We are… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Historically, international law lent a measure of legality to the colonial system, and allowed the West to set the rules for participation… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression,… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for… — Jeff Bingaman Copy Share Image
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
“I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summer… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality. — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
-I'm seventeen and he's 34 -OMG,I'm sure it's not legal! - Age is just a number - Yeah, and so is 911,… — Najwa Wahbi Copy Share Image
We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
In our constitutional system, the extent of political controversies, including the protests, surrounding a given issue is utterly unrelated to the analysis… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image