Lawlessness Quotes

“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“The laws governed people’s happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.”
― Jess C. Scott, Soulmates

“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

“In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.”
― Alex Scarrow, Afterlight

“Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Absolute freedom means absolute lawlessness.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right. If we don’t fight lawlessness, it prevails. If we don’t establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country. God says there is no man when there is nobody who stands for the truth.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous populations and for a policy of oppression. Its efficiency is superior simply because it ignores all intermediary stages between issuance and application, and because it prevents political reasoning by the people through the withholding of information. It can easily overcome the variety of local customs and need not rely on the necessarily slow process of development of general law. It is most helpful for the establishment of a centralized administration because it overrides automatically all matters of local autonomy. If rule by good laws has sometimes been called the rule of wisdom, rule by appropriate decrees may rightly be called the rule of cleverness. For it is clever to reckon with ulterior motives and aims, and it is wise to understand and create by deduction from generally accepted principles.

Government by bureaucracy has to be distinguished from the mere outgrowth and deformation of civil services which frequently accompanied the decline of the nation-state—as, notably, in France. There the administration has survived all changes in regime since the Revolution, entrenched itself like a parasite in the body politic, developed its own class interests, and become a useless organism whose only purpose appears to be chicanery and prevention of normal economic and political development. There are of course many superficial similarities between the two types of bureaucracy, especially if one pays too much attention to the striking psychological similarity of petty officials. But if the French people have made the very serious mistake of accepting their administration as a necessary evil, they have never committed the fatal error of allowing it to rule the country—even though the consequence has been that nobody rules it. The French atmosphere of government has become one of inefficiency and vexation; but it has not created and aura of pseudomysticism.

And it is this pseudomysticism that is the stamp of bureaucracy when it becomes a form of government. Since the people it dominates never really know why something is happening, and a rational interpretation of laws does not exist, there remains only one thing that counts, the brutal naked event itself. What happens to one then becomes subject to an interpretation whose possibilities are endless, unlimited by reason and unhampered by knowledge. Within the framework of such endless interpretive speculation, so characteristic of all branches of Russian pre-revolutionary literature, the whole texture of life and world assume a mysterious secrecy and depth. There is a dangerous charm in this aura because of its seemingly inexhaustible richness; interpretation of suffering has a much larger range than that of action for the former goes on in the inwardness of the soul and releases all the possibilities of human imagination, whereas the latter is consistently checked, and possibly led into absurdity, by outward consequence and controllable experience.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives.”
― Brandon Andress, And Then the End Will Come!: But Five Things You Need to Know in the Meantime

“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to change. Much of what was repulsive 100 years ago is normal today, and - although it may be a slippery slope - what is repulsive today is possible to be normal 100 years into tomorrow; the human standard has always been but to push the envelope. In this way, all generations are linked, and one can only hope that every extremist, self-proclaimed progressive is considering this ultimate 'Utopia' to which his kindness will lead at the end of the chain.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Most people, Gurion, most people do not violate boundaries, do not defy governance, and most of them come out intact, whereas very few of those who act lawlessly do. And that is why school is so much about following rules. You are here, above all else, to learn to live lawfully for the rest of your life. You are here to learn how to exist in cages without acting as if they are cages, to live like mensches despite being locked in cages. You are here to learn to survive in the world. That is the most basic purpose of our educational system, and it is a high purpose.”
― Adam Levin, The Instructions

“Not everyone is willing to break the rules and customs like I am. But I say that customs are made to serve us, we are not made to serve customs.

But if everyone thought that way there would be lawlessness.

I’d flame anyone else who disobeyed our customs. That’s only for me.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“It's not clear whether, at this point, the Babiarzes fully understood that the libertarians were operating under vampire rules—the invitation to enter, once offered, could not be rescinded.”
― Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town

“When we realized we are wrong, we must confess sins. THEN return to seek the right ways of God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Bill of Rights is the bone structure of the living and breathing United States of America. The Bill of Rights is the embodiment of the “inalienable rights” dictated by the Declaration of Independence, upon which every Federal law, State law, State constitution and the United States Constitution are based upon. Compromise the Bill of Rights, and you compromise the bone structure of the living and breathing Union. Compromise the Bill of Rights, and the United States is nothing but a corpse awaiting decay and a return to dust.”
― A.E. Samaan

“The land was torn apart in a legal dispute. Soon it was so devastated, nothing could live here- not plant or animal. Only lawyers. But eventually the place fell into lawlessness, and lawyers can't exist in an area of lawlessness, so they went feral. Some say they still roam the land. You'll suddenly hear someone yell, 'Objection!' and then you'll be torn apart like an improperly witnessed contract.”
― Frank J. Fleming

“Love is a Bohemian child... it has never, never known a law.”
― Catherine Meurisse, La jeune femme et la mer

“If we don’t fight lawlessness, it prevails.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God’s righteousness”
― Sunday Adelaja

“3 Things that destroy the country or the state .

People who are leading it.
People who are not informed.
People who are informed with wrong information.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“banana republic: (n.) lawless society where the monkeys rule.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“A failed country is caused by a failed state.
A failed state is caused by lawlessness.
Lawless is caused by government officials , accepting bribes to not to do their job.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“I have been mistreated by police officers in the past.”
― Steven Magee

“As your authority authorized and imposed lawlessness and unconstitutional sword upon adversaries yesterday as you face back today, realize and consider before applying transgression and misrule to others today since you may face it tomorrow. Establish transparent justice, not revenge and vengeance; it will result in stability and peace.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Do you have faith in the political system to regulate itself? I do not.”
― Steven Magee

“The FBI is a black box, you file a report to them and you never hear back. You hope that they do a reasonable job on investigating your report.”
― Steven Magee