There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient's taking the law... into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of... the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass--a idiot. If that's t...he eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience--by experience."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs? Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Comman...der, there is no civilization. Shears: That's just my point. Here, there is no civilization. Colonel Nicholson: Then perhaps we have the opportunity to introduce it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have sta...rted out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not to run on all fours, that is the law. Are we not men?... Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men?... Not to spill blo...od, that is the law. Are we not men? His is the hand that makes. His is the hand that heals. His is the House of Pain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my ...civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually but all of my sex are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this so-called republican form of government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gulf between employers and the employed is constantly widening, and classes are rapidly forming, one comprising the very rich ...and powerful, while in another are found the toiling poor. As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully-restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »