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" Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population. "

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" Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. "

Thomas Carper

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" Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. "

" Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. "

" Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. "

" The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things. "

" Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. "

" Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been - I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature, and thrive as a better, more confident person. "

" Hell is full of musical amateurs. "

" When Brad and I got married in 2008, it got a lot of attention. And all the attention was over the fact that we were two men, but people were hardly conscious of the fact that we were entering into an interracial marriage. That's wonderful, because it was only 50 years ago with Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriages were made legal. "

" Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people. "

Ziggy Marley

" All genuinely intellectual work is humorous. "

" Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. "

" Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. "

" Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. "

" Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. "

" In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present. "

" Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government. "

" I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. "

Steven Wright

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" My reputation grows with every failure. "

" It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. "

" Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom. "

" We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court. "

" Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. "

" Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. "

" I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system. "

" In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant. "

" Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. "

" Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. "

" If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. "

" I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. "