Crime Quote by Various

“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

“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

“That is a good example of why efficient and trustworthy courts are so important. Without them, people are left to their own devices. Frequently,…

— Paul Marlowe

“So long as we have a law that is exploitable by individuals in power, it is imperative that every thinking human stands up to…

— Abhijit Naskar

“A state which savagely represses or persecutes sections of its people cannot in my view be regarded as observing the rule of law, even…

— Tom Bingham

“The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or…

— Douglas Wilson

“Laws are cheap of passage, costly of enforcement. They do not execute themselves.”

— Stephen Puleo

“In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Isocrates

“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