Abstention Quote by Aleister Crowley

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

— Abraham Lincoln

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that.

— Gary Gilmore

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action…

— Aldo Leopold

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

— Albert Camus

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

— Nicolas Chamfort

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

— Bernard Madoff

Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it,…

— Raoul Vaneigem

Do not sanction an absurdity.

— Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

— Cullen Murphy

The reality is, punishing people by using a sentencing enhancement that was clearly intended to punish people who had been doing something far worse…

— Kat Timpf

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

— David Novak