Infringement Quotes

• We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.

  Nikolai Bukharin

  People, Enemy, Opponents

  "Programme of the World Revolution". Book by Nikolai Bukharin. Chapter VII: "Freedom for the Working Class and the poorest Elements of the Peasantry; Restrictions for the Bourgeoisie", www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

  Lysander Spooner

  Character, Men, Rights

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.7

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• History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Names, Liberty, Minorities

  Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586, 1940.

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• Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

  Josh Billings

  Parent, Age, Ancestry

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• In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or by the government; the right to work and to adequate earnings from work; freedom of discussion and teaching; adequate participation of the individual in the formation of his government. These human rights are nowadays recognised theoretically, although, by abundant use of formalistic, legal manoeuvres, they are being violated to a much greater extent than even a generation ago.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Government, Talking

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.35, Broadway Books

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• The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.

  Herb Kelleher

  Pain, Aviation, Ass

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• There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to Eye of the Tiger and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like "Oh, that works."

  Hulk Hogan

  Eye, Garden, Hands

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

  David Boies

  Napster, Vicarious, Music Is

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• Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on the civil rights and liberties of the American people. Undeterred by the public outcry, the president [George Bush] vows to continue spying on American citizens.

  Samuel Alito

  Rights, People, Balance

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• Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.

  Drew Curtis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Fighting

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• Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

  Dan Brown

  Sky Is The Limit, Sky's The Limit, Died

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Party, Sunshine, Rights

  1948 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 14 July 1948, Philadelphia, PA

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• Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Law, Giving

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of those rights; and by degrees, the people are brought to consider the soldiery not only as their protectors but as their superiors.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Rights, People

  Alexander Hamilton (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution ... by A. Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. With an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus (A. Hamilton) and Helvidius (J. Madison), on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793; the Original Articles of Confederation ... Sixth Edition, Etc”, p.27

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• On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.' The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.

  Slavoj Žižek

  New York, Taken, Guarantees That

  Slavoj Žižek (2009). “First As Tragedy, Then As Farce”, p.58, Verso

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• We make a product here in America and - they copy it in China and they couldn't care less about infringement or anything else. We talk about the environmentalists. You know, they all want us to make our plan so that nothing can go into the air. Do you think China's doing that? They laugh at us.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, America, Air

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Law, Two

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• There is a person that says they invented the podcast and they are suing Adam Carolla, because he is the top of the hill, for patent infringement. If this person wins, Adam Carolla, Marc Maron, Joe Rogan, Jay Mohr, Chris Hardwick, it will all go away. So, it's kind of like when someone takes your name so you can't get it on Twitter, magnified times a billion.

  Jay Mohr

  Winning, Names, Going Away

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Jobs, Dad, Children

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• I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

  Tom Lehrer

  People, Interesting, Flattery

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.

  John Bright

  Men, Rights, People

  Speech at his Durham election in July 1843. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 100, 1913.

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• Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

  William Pitt

  Exercise, Tyrants, Slavery

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• You women are all the same, if bed's all right,
  You think everything else can go to the wind.
  But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights,
  Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

  Euripides

  Thinking, Rights, Wind

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• I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement.

  Justin Theroux

  Enough, Cheated, Copyright

  Source: collider.com

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• And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense.

  William Blackstone

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Sir William BLACKSTONE, Samuel Warren (1856). “Blackstone's Commentaries systematically abridged and adapted to the existing state of the law and constitution, with great additions. By Samuel Warren”, p.101

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