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“I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.”

Ifs Form Law Belief Strong Rich Modern Draws Response Islam Trauma Driven Traditional Islamic Distinction Entirety Islamic Law

Author:Daniel Pipes

“We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.”

Needs Law Strong Force Police Department Republic Ministry Interiors Law Enforcement Enforcement Penetrate Traitor Police Force Chechnya

Author:Akhmad Kadyrov

“All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.”

Ends Might Law Strong Waiting Interest Groups Crime Possibility Weak Leaving Circles Arise Pursue Decent Ethical Norm Cowardly

Book:Brute Orbits

Source: Brute Orbits

“Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.”

Men Use Hands Law Turns Strong Advantage Strong Man

Book:Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it.”

Men Art Government Law Strong Violence Kings Weak Strong Man Caprice Weak Man Duplicity

Author:Samuel Smiles

“The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.”

Kind Law Strong Shapes All Kinds Occasions Bent Rope Twisted

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in doubtful case. ... But it is not on slight implication and vague conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered as void. The opposition between the Constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other.”

“Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live.”

“In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.”

Men Eye Law Purpose Strong Results Doubt Wife Expression Consequence No Doubt

Author:William Henry Maule

“In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.”

Way Done Success Law Order Winning Strong Loses Justice Careers Civilization Equal Weak Ancient Egypt Old Ways Atlantis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.”

Men Needs Law Strong Nations Moral Goodness Pressure Assurance Inexperience Sanguine

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!”

Firsts Soul Use Dream Law Strong Arms Conscience Awe Coward Babbling Strong Arms

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare