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Showing posts with label legal matters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal matters. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

John Locke's quote on law and tyranny

“Whenever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another’s harm; and whosoever in authority exceeds the power given by the law, and makes use of the force he has under his command, to compass that upon the subject which the law allows not, ceases in that to be a magistrate, and acting without authority may be opposed, as any other man who by force invades the right of another.”

John Locke in his Second Essay of Civil Government said that the government becomes a usurper and a tyrant when the powers of the government are exercised not for the common good but for their own private advantage.

Friday, March 06, 2009

Supreme Court Justice quote

We (Supreme Court Justices) are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final

Robert H.Jackson - Supreme Court Justice of the United States

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Chief Justice bribery quote

"It took me six months (as a practising lawyer) to be nice, to bribe each and every individual to get back into their good books before our files were attended to.

"That was my personal experience and I am telling this to all the clerks and all the registries to stop this nonsense."

Chief Justice Zaki Azmi quoted in the New Straits Times on November 8, 2008