Positivist Law Quotes & Sayings

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so. — Seneca The Younger

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. — Mark Twain

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms. — Ingrid Newkirk

Thus, consumption taxes tend to reduce conspicuous consumption and promote longer-term retirement security, family wealth, social welfare, technical progress, and economic growth. In essence, income taxes penalize people for what they contribute to society (labor and capital), whereas consumption taxes penalize people for what they take out of society (new retail purchases). So, to tax experts, it is no surprise that U.S. and U.K. citizens spend too much and don't save enough, relative to what would be optimal for society and even for themselves. — Geoffrey Miller

I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process. — Richard Branson

Headline writing is an art form. — Jennifer Lee

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking ... '1861, that was polarized.' — P. J. O'Rourke

My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time. — Julie James

The motorization of law into mere decree was not yet the culmination of simplifications and accelerations. New accelerations were produced by market regulations and state control of the economy - with their numerous and transferable authorizations and subauthorizations to various offices, associations and commissions concerned with economic decisions. Thus in Germany, the concept of "directive" appeared next to the concept of "decree." This was "the elastic form of legislation," surpassing the decree in terms of speed and simplicity. Whereas the decree was called a "motorized law," the directive became a "motorized decree." Here independent, purely positivist jurisprudence lost its freedom of maneuver. Law became a means of planning, an administrative act, a directive. — Carl Schmitt

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that. — Sabine Lisicki

My first album will be titled One Foot in Hell Already. — Cassandra Clare