Top 1200 Legal System Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

It [the internet] should be publicly controlled but Washington is not a system of public control, it's mainly a system of corporate control. We ought to have a free internet, but that means having a free society, and there is fundamental questions there.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.

From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis, which meant decentralization because knowledge is not concentrated anywhere. It's based on motivation, and so these are the advantages of, say, the cautious case for capitalism, that the market system is efficient.

I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.

What was especially surprising for me is that there are many people who view Sci-Hub as some kind of a tool to change the system. Like changing the system was a goal, and Sci-Hub was a tool to achieve it.

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

Being enrolled in a college does not free you from the legal obligation to become domiciled.

Well, obviously, I'm not allowed to speak about the legal battles, but I love lesbians.

On the technical side, Apollo 8 was mainly a test flight for the Saturn V and the Apollo spacecraft. The main spacecraft system that needed testing on a real lunar flight was the onboard navigation system.

There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a system of representations; in either case, he differs only in degree from animals.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

We have a system of jurisprudence. You are innocent until proven guilty. You have a right to counsel. And you have a right to hospitalization if you are ill. That is our system. And it's what makes this country special and what makes this country great.

Taking legal action against pirates is a headache for artists like me.

I know ideals aren't realities, but they do influence reality - social, legal, political, cultural.

It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.

Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system - with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes - allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.

I don't want to stick a sticking plaster on it, I don't want to fix children once the system's broken them, I want to give every child the opportunity before that - because the system should protect and nurture, and not damage our children.

In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church.

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

Those who have left to seek entry under this new system - and it will be an efficient system - will not be awarded surplus visas, but will have to apply for entry under the immigration caps or limits that will be established in the future.

I think the Scandinavian health systems are better when it comes to preventative care than the German system, because in the Scandinavian systems, the government is really more active in defining treatment, goals and defining health priorities. The German system is a competitive system with little government intervention. The price for this is that the government cannot set a health agenda. And the Scandinavian systems have little competition, so you often do have waiting lists. But on the other hand, you then have the government which can push for prevention.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

I love the studio system. Love that studio system and all their money. They're great; I think they're fabulous . You know, what it is right now is I feel like I'm still learning as a filmmaker, I'm still starting out.

I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.

I'll protect and expand access to no-copay birth control and safe, legal abortion.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.

I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?

My son wouldn't go get heroin. If he did or didn't, it wouldn't have anything to do with whether it was legal or illegal.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

Legal land surveyors are few and far between and can find themselves in demand.

No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

The truth is we have a political system and an economic system controlled by a few extremely wealthy people. Not Barack Obama, not Bernie Sanders, no one person has the influence by himself or herself to take on this enormous array of power unless millions of people begin to work together to demand changes.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana, make it an all cash business.

Especially from the legal end of things, the easiest thing for a big corporation or lawyer to say is no.

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

The idea of making the industry live up to its legal responsibility is not going to die.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses."

We need a transformation to our energy system that not only reflects our climate reality. We need an energy system that is of, by, and for the people - not corporations seeking the largest possible profit.

San Francisco is the only city in America where marijuana is legal but plastic bags are not.

Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a little bit of modification to the software, it could look at solar system objects.

Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.