Legality Quotes

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

  Tim Hawkins

  Running, Hands, Law

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• 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

  Law, Needs, Morality

  "I Learn". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1976.

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• Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Dying, Preserves, Compulsory

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

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Justice, Protection, Tyranny

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• Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Morality

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• 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.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, People

  "We are Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald from the Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR. AUAA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• 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

  Law, Morality, Citizenship

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• 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

  Meaningful, Opportunity, Government

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• 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

  Kindness, Compassion, Evil People

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• 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

  Struggle, Popular Vote, Government

  Ernesto Guevara, Brian Loveman, Thomas M. Davies (1985). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Honor is the mysticism of legality

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Honor, Mysticism

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• 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

  Differences, Government, Matter

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• 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.

  Lord Acton

  Fate, Government, Hands

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

  Roger Caillois

  Order, Everyday, Fantastic

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• 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

  War, Jerusalem, Recognition

  "Rabin legacy casts long shadow over Barak, peace process" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. November 3, 1999.

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• I don't feel that people should glom onto other people. I feel that relationships should be nice and easy and convenient and happy and not strictured with legality or jealousy.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Nice, People, Easy

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• Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

  Linus Torvalds

  Religious, Hippie, Morality

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

  Jeff Bingaman

  People, Challenges, Should

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• 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

  People, United States, Way

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.236, Random House

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• Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Marriage, Religious, Men

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.29, Cosimo Classics

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• 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

  Law, Practice, Views

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• 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

  Horse, Law, Circus

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• 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

  Government, Goal, Unity

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• The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Two, People, Together

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.210, St. Martin's Press

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• How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.

  Walter E. Williams

  People, Doe, Done

  "All It Takes is Guts: A Minority View". Book by Walter E. Williams, 1987.

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