Top 46 Quotes About Legality
#1. What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.
Rosa Luxemburg
#2. The terrosirt and the policeman both come form the same basket. Revolution, legality - countermoves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.
Joseph Conrad
#3. I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#4. So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
Clare Short
#5. Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#6. The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality
Roger Caillois
#7. It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.
Julian Baggini
#8. The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
Maxim Gorky
#10. Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determining our futures.
Edward Snowden
#11. Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.
Ashly Lorenzana
#12. Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
Roger Wicker
#13. It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period of time? that the individual have a meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention and challenge whether they are being wrongfully detained.
Jeff Bingaman
#14. But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.
Richard Perle
#15. I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy ... liberty is my foremost passion. That is the truth.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#16. Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order.
Hari Kunzru
#17. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
Robert Byrd
#18. There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under That's grand, then it moves into Ah now don't push it, and finally it comes under Right now you're takin the piss, and that's when the police come in.
Dara O Briain
#19. I think," Philander Knox teased, "it would be better to keep your action free from any taint of legality.
Edmund Morris
#20. Legality, therefore, is not able to set thee free from thy burden.
Anonymous
#21. You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.
Hanan Ashrawi
#22. Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?
Max Stirner
#23. Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.
Che Guevara
#24. The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.
Evo Morales
#25. First, where the law is the major source for bioethics, morality is too easily confused with legality and moral questions too quickly reduced to legal questions. Moreover, the law is better at
telling us what not to do than at providing ends and goals worthy of our humanity.
Allen Verhey
#26. The marquis de Carabas tossed the figurine to Mr. Croup, who caught it eagerly, like an addict catching a plastic baggie filled with white powder of dubious legality.
Neil Gaiman
#27. Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.
Linus Torvalds
#28. The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
Neville Cardus
#29. I was concerned about the legality of the program, and so I asked lawyers - of which you got plenty of them in Washington - to determine whether or not I could do this legally. And they came back and said yes.
George W. Bush
#30. Government income redistribution programs produce the same result as theft. In fact, that's what a thief does; he redistributes income. The difference between government and thievery is mostly a matter of legality.
Walter E. Williams
#31. We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
#32. The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
John Lancaster Spalding
#33. People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.
Jeff Bingaman
#34. Bitcoins are not illegal in and of themselves and have known legitimate uses," the FBI agent, who drew up the complaint, wrote. This brief sentence was one of the strongest statements to date about the legality of Bitcoin in the United States - and it came from one
Nathaniel Popper
#35. Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.
Tim Hawkins
#36. Legality has become a poisonous dagger, with which one party stabs the other in the back.
Carl Schmitt
#37. Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.
Noam Chomsky
#38. The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
Baron De Montesquieu
#39. The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
John Acton
#40. The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
John Marshall
#41. You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
John Irving
#42. Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.
A.E. Samaan
#43. It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.
Bryant McGill
#44. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Hermann Hesse
#45. Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.
Richard Davenport-Hines
