#legal

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#any #dalai #dalai lama #freedom #freedom of speech

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing. ↗

— William H. Macy

#emotionally #even #free #huge #huge thing

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#anyone #associate #behaves #differently #illegal

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#congress #constitutional #constitutional amendment #desecration #empowered

The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#authority #commit #crimes #criminal #criminal justice

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration. ↗

— Theresa May

#britain #create #environment #here #hostile

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat. ↗

— Theresa May

#act #am #because #cannot #cat

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#administration #any #both #bush #bush administration