“What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves.” KindLawOrderSituationCitizensProtectDisasterAmendmentsBreakdownSecond AmendmentLaw And OrderLouisianaAftermath Author:Wayne LaPierre
“You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed.” ThinkingKnowsWayI CanBigsTodayLawUsedAttitudeSituationChangedBeatsPoliceAssUsed To BeKicksBad SituationsBreaking The Law Author:Rodney King
“I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.” IfsShouldRealSeemsLawAnswersSituationClearDoubtAuthorityDebateAriseTortureNo DoubtBombsLaw EnforcementEnforcementLegal System Author:Alan Dershowitz
“According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.” HumansKindLawNaturalDealsSituationEconomicCapableCapacityVarietyWorking ItControlledTopicsNatural LawCybernetics Author:Anthony Stafford Beer
“We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such as the new law requiring NGOs to register as "foreign agents", the law banning homosexual "propaganda", problems with the rule of law and arbitrary judicial processes, and court rulings against the opposition.” HumansProblemLawProcessSituationRightsExampleConcernedRegardCourtHuman RightsRussiaAgentsPropagandaOppositionHomosexualRulingArbitraryRule Of LawRegisterJudicial Author:Cecilia Malmstrom
“I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenI CanTwoHappensLawArtistSufferingSituationHe ManGayMen And WomenLeavingRussiaIsolatedAvenuesBansGay Men Author:Elton John
“Celestial marriage is for the fullness of the glory of god. It is the crowning glory. A man has no right to one wife unless he is worthy of two.... There is no provision made for those who have had the chance & opperternity and have disregarded that law. Men who disregard that law are in the same situation as if they broke any other law. they are transgressors.” IfsMenMadeTwoLawChanceSituationWifeGloryWorthyBrokeFullnessProvisionCelestialGlory Of GodDisregardPolygamyDisregardedCrowning Glory Author:Francis M. Lyman
“If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.” IfsWellsLawInterestingSituationPersonalityCircumstancesAdultsDevelopingTeenagerAdolescenceUnattractiveAlleviateInsufferableInteresting Personalities Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.” IfsThinkingMenArtFactsLawPoliticalSituationHappenedTroubleSubjectsSeriousElectionMedicineAstronomyAwfulInstructionQualifiedElection DayBotanySerious Subjects Author:Hugh Price Hughes
“No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately.” HelpingLawCitiesSituationPoliceFranceImmigrantsSectionsAssimilation Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside of them. ... Inside every biological and social situation I am free to make decisions.” TwoLawChoicesSocialDecisionSituationBiologySociology Author:Nina Berberova