339 private quotes tagged legal

“I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.” — Elton John

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“I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.” — Max Walker

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“As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.” — Julian Bond

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“Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.” — Kevin Mitnick

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“Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.” — Aaron Allston

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“When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.” — Ron Wyden

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“I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.” — Alan Dershowitz

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“Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.” — Tom Hanks

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“Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.” — John Sununu

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“I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.” — Melanie Brown

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“Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?” — Frederic Bastiat

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“It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.” — Ron Wyden

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“I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.” — Sienna Miller

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“I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.” — Bobby Darin

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“The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.” — Warren Farrell

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“I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.” — Helen Reddy

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“I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.” — James Joyce

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“In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.” — Aly Khan

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“Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.” — George Soros

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“Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.” — Herbert Croly

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“I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.” — Chester Brown

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“I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.” — Penn Jillette

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“We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.” — Julian Assange

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“Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.” — Joseph Ratzinger

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