#legal

I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death-penalty #justice #justice-system #legal-system #reasonable-doubt

She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. "Are you an illegal alien? ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#crazy #epiphany #illegal #sunshine #talon

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#illegal #immorality #lament #life #true

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. ↗

— John Marshall

#guilt #innocence #justice #law #legality

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#choices #law #legality #life #morality

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#psychedelics #love

Her eyes travel down to where he's gripping the handle of her suitcase. "What're you doing?" she asks, blinking at him. "You looked like you needed some help." Hadley just stares at him. "And this way it's perfectly legal," he adds with a grin. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#cute #perfectly-legal #love

Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal. ↗

— Sue Merrell

#legal #natural #trust #well-dressed #nature

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#humour #legal-system #parenting

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day. ↗

— Brian D. McLaren

#orthodoxy #religion #tradition #religion