Jacque Fresco Quotes

There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?

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

I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.

Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

Law is a bottomless pit.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When somebody up there—a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator—so decrees.

Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

If we don’t enforce the regulations we have, these conversations are useless.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

A rule is a rule.

I've never been in trouble with the law.

We all want and need the rule of law to be upheld.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Law is the ultimate science.

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.