#law

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#despotic #law #morals #relaxed #versa

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#fights #lawyers #people #win

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#genetic #hopeless #i #mother #pollyanna

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#any #cannot #community #country #defying

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#blair #bush #caves #law #literature

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#both #both sides #by the time #case #congress

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#accepting #avenue #citizenship #historically #immigration

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#disarm #gun #gun laws #laws #mercy

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#because #been #collective #consists #divine

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. ↗

— David Baldacci

#been #believe #citizen #fiction #injustice