#gal

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

#appearance #apprehensive #believing #consider #devotion

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#continue #enforce #i #illegal #illegal immigration

I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#authority #being #book #going #happen

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. ↗

— Julian Assange

#around #assets #attacks #been #different

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks. ↗

— Julian Assange

#against #attacks #databases #defend #format

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt. ↗

— Joe Baca

#hurt #legal #legal system #majority #nothing

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#beginning #black #class #companies #comprise

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#big #caught #flies #get #laws

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#art world #been #changed #crashed #doing

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#i #star #wanted