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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. -- William Law
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things. -- Adam Hamilton
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good. -- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil. -- Ricky Martin
In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals. -- Rick Perry
Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand. -- John Moody
I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong. -- Steven Soderbergh
In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it. -- Russell Pearce
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Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other! -- Cesare Beccaria
We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world. -- Brad Thor
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place. -- Si Robertson
No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate. -- Julian Baggini
Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail. -- Bram Cohen
Reversible Errors' is about the limits of the law to define who committed ultimate evil, to define what ultimate evil is, to allow the million arbitrary factors to make this a meaningful punishment, and finally to say, 'Are we really accomplishing what we wanted to accomplish? Are those anxieties relieved?' I don't think so. -- Scott Turow
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil. -- Otto von Bismarck
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws. -- Herbert Hoover
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies. -- Mark Twain
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication. -- Walt Whitman
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good. -- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try. -- Carolyn Hax

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