A Quote by Bob Black

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

Bob Black

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Any Application Coercion Law Official Succeeds Use

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Bob Black
American - Activist
Born: January 4, 1951

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

James A. Garfield

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

Lysander Spooner

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

Mahatma Gandhi

We use the official definitions of terrorism. The definitions in the U.S. code, in British law, in U.S. Army manuals and so on. And if you use those definitions it follows instantly that the United States is the leading terrorist state in the world.

Noam Chomsky

A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.

Edwin Meese

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

Ted Nelson

The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It is by this means that it maintains liberty of expression, security of person and property, genuine freedom of contract, the rights of public meeting and association, and finally its own power to carry out common objects undefeated by the recalcitrance of individual members.

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

James A. Garfield

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.

Lajos Kossuth

One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.

George Washington

The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

Wilkie Collins

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.

Harry Browne

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.