Richelle Mead Quotes

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

I say, break the law.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

NO LAW MEANS NO LAW!

I can raise more hell in jail than out.

When demonstrators are being civilly disobedient, they will in most cases be given a chance to adhere to the law before being arrested, and then if necessary, they will be arrested in a non-violent manner.

The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.

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

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

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

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

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

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

When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the big house... This is just an anathema to everything that the civil rights movement was truly all about and what it accomplished.

One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].

You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.