“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
“The primary focus of a cop should be to marry the justice In the hands of law not to masturbate the justice in his hands”
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that s pretty important.”
“Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.”
“My main problem with cops is that they do what they re told. They say Sorry mate, I m just doing my job all the fucking time.”
“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love s sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”
“Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.”
“Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.”
“The minute you read something that you can t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. ”
“And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.”
“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.”
“The judge s massive eyebrows crept up. Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today? Yes, Your Honor. Well, shit, Dobe said. I guess you re familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.”
“Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice”
“There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.”
“ Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend; law serves power; law in large measure is a recapitulation of the status quo; it confirms a rigid order designed to insulate the beneficiaries of the status quo from the disturbances of change. The painful truth--one with a long history--is that police are around in large part to guarantee a peaceful disgestion for the rich.”
“I m an intelligent sociopath. I don t have problems with drugs, I don t commit crimes, I don t take pleasure in hurting people, and I don t typically have relationship problems. I do have a complete lack of empathy. But I consider that an advantage, most of the time. Do I know the difference between right and wrong, and do I want to be good? Sure. ... A peaceful and orderly world is a more comfortable world for me to live in. So do I avoid breaking the law because it s right ? No, I avoid breaking the law because it makes sense.”
“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”