Karl Kraus Quotes
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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One with the law is a majority.
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.
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We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
