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"283 Law Quotes

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Against Behavior Books Homosexual
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I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

Call Court Go Only
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

Law No Law Trial Lynching
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Conscience Follow Immoral Law
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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

Adult All People Authority Blanket
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Doing Ethics Guilty He
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The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

Considered Gentleman Glorious Greatest
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Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.

According Breaking Dignified Everything
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In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.

Any Centers Family Hereditary
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Against Biggest Biting Committed
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Acute Be True Compassion Despair
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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Baby Believes Carriage Chamber
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Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Agree Defend Injustice People
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Cannot Cry Dead Duty
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I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

Able Also Being Changing
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Cage Wild beast Law Selfish man
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The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Buddha Comfortably Computer Cycle
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Chaos Law Nature Dream
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Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Legitimate Only Required Self-Defense
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You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

Country Crime Fine Get
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Military men Dumb Stupid animals
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Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

Created Form Framework Last
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Law Upheld Government officials An end
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Worst evil Disregard Law Respect
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Democracy Exhibit Form Law
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Advantage Afraid Almost American
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

Accepted Alone Concur Constitution
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Avail Cannot Choice Laws
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Current In My Opinion Interest Liable
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You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

Commit Crimes Enough Face
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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Sufficient Laws Unenforceable
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The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

Law Man's life Capital punishment Inadmissible
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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter

Laws Matter Our minds.fabricate
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If these laws are not working, it’s our duty to create modern laws that will work in order to protect lives and properties.

Laws Not working Create modem Protect lives
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As a government, we have strengthened the Sexual Offences Act and introduced tougher penalties for rape and gender-based violence.

Government Strengthened Sexual offences Act
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The rule of law is supreme. Absolutely no citizen, is above the law. Anybody who incites, plans, supports, undertakes, or is involved in any manner of violence in SierraLeone will be dealt with within the broad spectrum of the law.

Rule Law Supreme No citizen
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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Animal kingdom The rule Eat Be eaten
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

Breaks The law Not punished Obey
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I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal;

Extreme justice Injury Approve Terrible laws
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Like good soldiers we are not promising anything miraculous or spectacular. But what we do promise every law-abiding citizen is freedom from fear and all forms of oppression

Good Soldiers Miraculous Spectacular
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It is important that we observe this law diligently because it will enhance our chances of surviving the onslaught of this pandemic and we are determined to ensure that anyone who flouts this law will be brought to judgment. Please ensure the strictest compliance with this law.

Important Law diligently Enhance Our chances
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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

Human right Simply endorse Life Moral value
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

The problem Living outside Law Have
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I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

Have Problem People Constitution loosely
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Let me take this opportunity to remind us all that the laws guiding the operation of this lockdown and the general security of the people are in force and relevant security agencies are on alert to ensure total compliance and guarantee the safety and security of the people.

This opportunity Remind us Laws guiding Operation
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You can get in just as much trouble by being dumb and innocent as you can by breaking the law.

Much trouble Being dumb Innocent Breaking
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Culture Great Be bad At times
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The setting up of the paramilitary organization called “Amotekun” is illegal and runs contrary to the provisions of the Nigerian law.

The setting Paramilitary organization Called Illegal
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I wish to reiterate again the utmost regard of my Office for the entire judicial structure of Nigeria. This administration remains unrelenting in deepening the rule of law and the administration of justice in general.

Wish Reiterate Utmost regard My office
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To set up an organization that will provide free legal services to poor Nigerians who cannot afford the services of private legal practitioners.

Set up Organization Provide Free
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