Simon Bolivar Quotes

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

Simon Bolivar

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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Road
  • Right
  • Thing

• Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Law
  • Single

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
  • Natural

• I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Women
  • Done
  • Want

• With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Feel
  • Path
  • Right

• Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Forward

• Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Law

• The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Age
  • Law

• Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Law

• The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Law
  • Question
  • Progress

• You are weak people, only a country that isn’t normal acts this way. No apartheid law will erase the fact that in this homeland there are two nations.

  

  Ayman Odeh
  • People
  • Country
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• When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

  

  Ellen Key
  • True
  • Nature
  • Society

• They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.

  

  Preston Brooks
  • Law

• The FBI has built up substantial expertise to address cyber threats, both in the homeland and overseas. Here at home, the FBI serves as the executive agent for the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), which joins together 19 intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies to coordinate cyber threat investigations.

  

  James Comey
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• At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Time
  • World
  • Law

• Once upon a time, Bill Clinton was widely perceived as an ally and advocate for the needs of black people. However, it is the Clinton administration's Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act that set the stage for the massive racial injustice we struggle with in law enforcement today.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• I have obeyed the law. I have nothing to hide.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • Law

• Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

  

  Fred Upton
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  • Law
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• I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
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  • Pleasure
  • Scandalize

• I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.

  

  John Catsimatidis
  • Real
  • Red

• An element of virtually every national security threat and crime problem the FBI faces is cyber-based or facilitated. We face sophisticated cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, organized cyber syndicates, and terrorists.

  

  James Comey

• When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

  

  Simon Bolivar
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  • Tyranny