DeRay Mckesson Quotes

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

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

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

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

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

Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem... It's just nailing a proclamation on a wall saying, 'Don't do this.'

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.

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.

People should have fear of the law.

Rules that are not stringently upheld are more likely to get broken.

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.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

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

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.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I was the law and order.

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

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

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Anyone who does not follow the laws of Rome will suffer the same fate as my brother.

Today there's law and order in everything. You can't beat anybody for nothing. If you do beat anyone, it's got to be for the sake of order.

Reward and punishment are the twin instruments of power in the State; they must not be revealed to anyone.