Quotes by Law I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice. Alan Dershowitz law winning justice It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it. Alan Dershowitz shapes law dream Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern. Alan Dershowitz democracy law attitude It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality. Alan Dershowitz principles law war I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law. Alan Dershowitz real doubt law Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. Alan Dershowitz censorship freedom-of-speech law After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust. Alan Gottlieb gun dust law As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law. Alan Greenspan issues money law Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud. Alan Greenspan law believe thinking It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens. Alan K. Simpson government law hands The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to. Alan Kay track law want When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything. Alan Kay hate law people The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns. Alan Keyes gun law mean The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. Alan Keyes gun self law Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes. Alan Keyes casting leader law Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government. Alan Keyes government law people We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America. Alan Keyes taught-us law america My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game. Alan Lewis law games jobs Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock. Alan Lightman sadness law brain Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation. Alan Lightman law order past «56789101112131415»