Anthony Crosland Quotes

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.

I would never ever knowingly break the law.

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

We are a country based on the rule of law.

I am able to put aside personal beliefs and follow the law, even when I strongly disagree with it.

Everyone should work within the ambit of law.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

We are a country of laws.

The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.

Respect for the law must be the basis for all legal action.

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

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.

People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.