Quotes About Martial Law

#1. For another thing, we're under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little ship there towing you along behind in a ball gag and lacy underwear. So your warrant bullshit? You can roll that up and fuck it. Now tell me why I'm here.

James S.A. Corey

#2. Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law.

Gerald Celente

#3. The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

Alan Brien

#4. You can learn all kinds of habits quickly under martial law. The

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#5. These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.

Ulrike Meinhof

#6. Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.

Michael Moore

#7. Most girls get flowers or candy. I get a declaration of martial law.

Lisa Shearin

#8. Martial law robbed this country of its future: It was during that time that the country embarked on the path to becoming the sick man of Asia, subsequently to be left behind while the rest of the continent advanced.

Roberto Verzola

#9. You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#10. It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North - a satirical call for the imposition of martial law in the colonies.

Roxane Gay

#11. Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

Mary McCarthy

#12. There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#13. The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

#14. It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Franz Kafka

#15. We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967.

Grace Lee Boggs

#16. Endure the pain, overcome the hurt.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. It seemed that freedom of expression had run amuck, or had run as far as the Government would allow it to go.

Kenneth Eade

#18. It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

Robert Breault

#19. Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

Marc Garneau

#20. I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun ... except hot dogs.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#21. Laugh as much as possible. Because this makes your life better!

Deyth Banger

#22. When Violence floods the State from above, flowery land razed for robot proliferation

Allen Ginsberg

#23. Plateaus are a manifestation of the law of diminishing returns, and when we reach one it simply means that it is time to adjust our methods.

Chris Matakas

#24. Let go of all your pain. May your heart be open to healing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#26. You glow, Lark." His hand climbed back up again and swept over my unbound hair. I swallowed, suddenly close to tears. Then why does no one see me? "I see you," he said.

Amy Harmon

#27. There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods.

Andrew Holleran

#28. God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

Martin Luther

#29. Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#30. We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

S. Kelley Harrell

#31. The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

George W. Bush