Ashraf Ghani Quotes

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.

I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?

Nanny states are interested in social order. Daddy states are interested in public order.

A State is not morally free to allow anarchy and license ... even if the majority should so desire.

The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society.

No moderate man views it in any other light than as an axiom, or self-evident truth, namely, that if any excuse for disobedience were once admitted, or any indulgence granted to these tender-conscienced inferiors there would be an end of all government in an instant; neither commands nor obedience could proceed one step further, but every individual instrument of power in that fatal society, astonished at the monstrous phenomenon, would stare at one another; all the wheels of the political machine would stop at once. nay would split into ten thou-sand pieces; every relation and connection of their parts would be instantly dissolved, and the beautiful whole would rush into a wild chaos of anarchy and confusion.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced

All of us know that if an individual, a community, or a state is going continuously and successfully to defy the rulings of the courts, then anarchy results.

We cannot stop senseless violence without the rule of law and security forces that represent and respect every segment of society.

Neither politics of chaos and anarchy has succeeded earlier and nor will succeed in future.

We need law and order in America.

Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

I hear a lot of talk about civil war. I'm concerned about that, of course. And I've talked to a lot of people about it. And what I've found from my talks are that the Iraqis want a unified country and that the Iraqi leadership is determined to thwart the efforts of the extremists and the radicals.

There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.