Legal Quotes

Pirates of Bollywood, or Bollywood of Pirates? - Tough to say.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

There is a Pirate in each of us!

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Piracy begins where creativity ends.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

I am a Pirate, A Pirate of Bollywood

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

I came, I saw, I copied, and I left

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Why Are Terrorists into Piracy? Well, they are movie buffs too!

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

I am Not a Pirate, I merely watch movies and delete them. Never store them on my computer.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Copyright Promotes Creativity by Proscribing the Right to Copy

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

~ Carl Hiaasen

Hauriou, became a crown witness for us when he confirmed this connection in 1916, in the midst of WWI: “The revolution of 1789 had no other goal than absolute access to the writing of legal statutes and the systematic destruction of customary institutions. It resulted in a state of permanent revolution because the mobility of the writing of laws did not provide for the stability of certain customary institutions, because the forces of change were stronger than the forces of stability. Social and political life in France was completely emptied of institutions and was only able to provisionally maintain itself by sudden jolts spurred by the heightened morality.

~ Carl Schmitt

The essence and value of the law lies in its stability and durability (...), in its “relative eternity.” Only then does the legislator’s self-limitation and the independence of the law-bound judge find an anchor. The experiences of the French Revolution showed how an unleashed pouvoir législatif could generate a legislative orgy.

~ Carl Schmitt

Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.

~ Steven Magee

I was one of those unfortunates adopted by upper middle-class professionals and nurtured in an environment of learning, art and a socio-religious culture steeped in more than 2000 years of Talmudic tradition. Not everyone is lucky enough to have been raised in a whiskey tango trailer park by a bow-legged female whose sole qualification for motherhood is a womb that happened to catch a sperm of a passing truck driver.

~ Generation Kill

A will can save one’s family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).

~ Henrietta Newton Martin

So I am perfectly free to buy any goods that are legally sold throughout Europe, provided that they can be delivered, even though they are not legal in Italy, even because in Italy only stupidity is legal.

~ Carl William Brown

I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA.

~ Steven Magee

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.

~ Steven Magee

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

~ Terry Pratchett

And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.

~ John-Talmage Mathis

Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it.

~ Robert Black

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

~ Edmund Burke

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.

~ Mustafa Akyol

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

~ Neil Gorsuch

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

~ John Yoo

If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects to the global economy as well as our individual liberties will be severe.

~ Marsha Blackburn

My theory on an existing crisis is that you have to be very strategic about each case's unique elements. If a crisis involves a legal component, you need a communication strategy that complements the company's legal objective. A strategy for a plea deal is different than a case going to trial.

~ Judy Smith

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

~ James Patrick Murray

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

~ Mike Pence

I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

~ Barney Frank

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

~ Cory Booker

There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women.

~ Tracy Chapman

The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask, don't tell.' The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court.

~ Charles M. Blow

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

~ Sienna Miller

NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.

~ Michael Hayden

U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something is legal doesn't make it right. I'm not American; I don't really care about what data is being collected about American citizens. I'm worried about us, the foreigners.

~ Mikko Hypponen

The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or web browsers are made by U.S. companies. When the rest of the world uses the net, they are effectively using U.S.-based services, making them a legal target for U.S. intelligence.

~ Mikko Hypponen

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

~ Hillary Clinton

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

~ Jan C. Ting

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

~ Cherie Blair