 Quote > ConsequencesThere's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. Continued at top
Owned by Unordained - Created on 09/04/2003 - Never edited 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Freedom & Responsibility11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice06/22/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Dangers of Safety01/28/05 :: Person :: O'Rourke01/12/04 :: Article :: Standard Deviants :: We may be all over the map, but we're neighbors. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeOne of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.  02/14/05 :: Article :: Inchoate :: That which is not yet done, is not yet done. 01/08/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: UK report upcoming on psychosis effects of cannabis (pot)09/04/03 :: Quote :: Demonax, Roman philosopher circa 150 A.D.Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Michel De MontaigneThe most desirable laws are those that are rarest, simplest, and most general; and I even think that it would be better to have none at all than to have them in such numbers as we have. 10/03/05 :: Quote :: John MiltonHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and
punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court JusticeThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...] 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. 07/31/08 :: Quote :: HL MenckenThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. 03/15/07 :: Quote :: O'RourkeWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. 02/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Privacy and Deviance11/06/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Vindication of Moral Liberty06/03/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: Papers portray Plot as more Talk than Action03/02/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Civil Rights Act of 196402/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations) 01/25/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Can competitive law work?01/06/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Is Europe Ready for 'Whore Power'?10/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: My Baby Boy's American Freedoms Vanish In Occupied Palestine09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mahatma GandhiFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: George OrwellIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.  03/31/04 :: Article :: Dark future for the law? :: 03/02/04 :: Article :: Equal opportunity :: Maybe we shouldn't always spell things out02/14/05 :: Article :: Having a reason for laws :: Because I said so! |
