Legal Consequences Quotes

I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

As long as the law exists, there will be morality.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.

The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Criminals don't care what the law is.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

He shall hang though every dog in Quebec bark in his favor.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

That no one shall invite another to drink under penalty of 3 sous….If anyone be found intoxicated he shall pay for the first offence 3 sous and shall be remanded to the consistory ; for the second offence he shall he held to pay the sum of 6 sous, and for the third 10 sous and be put in prison.

I'm guilty as sin. I did something morally wrong. I gave in to the prestige and power, the things that went with my job. I knew that the Governor, the man that appointed me, wanted no recommendation for clemency in any death case.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

Thou Shalt Not Steal!

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

Treason is not own'd when 'tis decried; Successful crimes alone are justified.

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?