Concentration camp Quote by Tom Bingham

“There is not the slightest hope that the authorities who, for a number of years, have permitted the violation of the law, will be…

— Various

“Laws must be efficaciously deterrent in nature, and in grave offences where offenders trespass the precincts of being a human, and commit crimes against…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

“For these new states this curse bears the germs of a deadly sickness. For the nation-state cannot exist once its principle of equality before…

— Hannah Arendt

“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends,…

— Isocrates

“This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally…

— Wendy Brown

“The law perverted! The law — and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation — the law, I say, not only…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment…

— Alexander Hamilton

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Laws don't limit freedom. Laws insure the freedoms of the majority. Laws are unjust when they serve to put the majority of the people…

— Northern Adams

“Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed…

— Immanuel Kant