Carolyn Maloney (Carolyn Bosher Maloney) Quotes

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Carolyn Maloney

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• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • America
  • Law
  • Mistake

• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Law
  • President
  • Call

• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Law
  • Sorry
  • Consequences

• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Law

• The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Man
  • Law
  • Justice

• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Future
  • Law
  • Picture

• Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Order

• Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Death
  • Law
  • Death Penalty

• The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Society

• I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • School
  • Law

• I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Feeling
  • Law

• The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Power
  • Law
  • Broken

• In representing criminal defendants-especially guilty ones-it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
  • Good
  • Law
  • Sports

• The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Law
  • Selfish

• (Carmine Crocco) In such a crowd, so numerous and composed of such heterogeneous elements, it might have appeared almost absurd to look for discipline; but perfect discipline there was, for, whatever his other qualities might be, Crocco most undoubtedly was a 'ruler of men'. His word in that band was law, and the punishment of disaffection was death.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • War
  • Law
  • Military

• Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Hope
  • Should
  • Despair

• Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

  

  Jan Peter Balkenende
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Bitter

• Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Compliment
  • Disposition
  • Politeness

• Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Why
  • Death

• We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.

  

  George W. Sears
  • Home
  • Cities
  • Woods

• The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Law
  • Should
  • Treated