Authority Quote by Edward Bond Download Open image ““Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”” — Edward Bond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Crime Dictatorship Law
“You can be moral without following the law, and you can be immoral while following the law.” — Brandon Sanderson 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 my values… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.” — Arcesilaus Copy Share Image
“Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.” — Walter Van Tilburg Clark Copy Share Image
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.” — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
“We may disagree with the morality of a law, but we cannot deny the moral concern of a law.” — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image