Browsing Topic Best Legality Quotes

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

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.

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.

China has a history of thousands of years of feudalism and is still lacking in socialist democracy and socialist legality. We are now working earnestly to cultivate socialist democracy and socialist legality. Only in this way can we solve the problem.

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.

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 the government, but our futures.

Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality–counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system.

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.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism… the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.

Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction…. In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life – in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character…. It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.

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.

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.

Honor is the mysticism of legality

The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality

Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.

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.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.