Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-03-13 Mar 13, 2003Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.~ Mary McCarthyWhat we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporation's side. And the bureaucrats in the administration don't think the government belongs to the people.~ Ralph NaderAny sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.~ Unknown Mar 12, 2003The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.~ Frederic BastiatNobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.~ Adam SmithWhen a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs.~ Maxwell Anderson Mar 11, 2003The more laws the more offenders.~ Dr. Thomas FullerThe number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.~ P. D. OuspenskyMany laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many bad laws.~ Walter Savage Landor Mar 10, 2003Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.~ Justice Hugo L. BlackIn existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes.~ P. D. Ouspensky Mar 7, 2003Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.~ Carl Gustav JungIn no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.~ J. William Fulbright Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print