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Law Quotes by Emma Goldman
- Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.
- ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and…
- Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever…
- The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more…
- Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our…
- The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the…
- The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven…
- No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law…
- Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong…
- The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the…
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- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
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- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
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- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson