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"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war." »Albert Einstein
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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." »William James
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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities." »Publius Celsus
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"Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind." »Kay Ingram
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"I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another." »Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799
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"A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join." »Elbert Hubbard
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"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions." »Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test
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"It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'" »Bertrand Russell
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"There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal" »The National, Paris, 1850
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"Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute." »Cicero
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"Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?" »Ernest Thompson Seton
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"Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers." »Ronald Reagan
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"A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." »Henrik Ibsen
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"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed." »Abraham Lincoln
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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"The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class." »Aristotle
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"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." »Marian Wright Edelman
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"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." »Oscar Wilde
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"What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here." »Julie Cochrane
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"A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise." »Aldo Leopold
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"Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." »Ambrose Bierce
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"There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community." »Andrew Carnegie
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"If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind." »Henry C. Blinn
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"The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement." »Albert Einstein
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"Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it." »I Ching
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill
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