I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I love being in a courtroom.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

More law, less justice.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

A precedent embalms a principle.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

In most communities it is illegal to cry ‚fire‘ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.