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Law Quotes - Page 164

We use the official definitions of terrorism. The definitions in the U.S. code, in British law, in U.S. Army manuals and so on. And if you use those definitions it follows instantly that the United States is the leading terrorist state in the world.

"Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.339

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.37, Random House

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

"Mike Oldfield Interview for the Re-release of Tubular Bells". Interview with David Cheal, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2009.

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

Michael Polanyi (1974). “Scientific thought and social reality: essays”, Intl Universities Pr Inc