“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law”
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 420
Context: I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright 1923–1964Related quotes
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
1970s, Remarks on pardoning Nixon (1974)
Context: I deeply believe in equal justice for all Americans, whatever their station or former station. The law, whether human or divine, is no respecter of persons; but the law is a respecter of reality.
The facts, as I see them, are that a former President of the United States, instead of enjoying equal treatment with any other citizen accused of violating the law, would be cruelly and excessively penalized either in preserving the presumption of his innocence or in obtaining a speedy determination of his guilt in order to repay a legal debt to society.
During this long period of delay and potential litigation, ugly passions would again be aroused. And our people would again be polarized in their opinions. And the credibility of our free institutions of government would again be challenged at home and abroad.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956) 6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Discussion with reporters at the UN, September 21, 2007.<br><br> Situation room, CNN, 21 September 2007, 2007-09-28 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/21/sitroom.02.html, <br class="br">2007
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (15 October 1912), as cited in A Treasury of Jewish Quotations, ed. Joseph L. Baron, Rowman & Littlefield (1996), p. 269 : ISBN 1568219482
Extra-judicial writings
Theodore Kaczynski (1942) American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist
"Morality and Revolution"
The Road to Revolution (2008)
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
Metro Weekly interview (2006)
Context: I respect her talent and her brain and who she is as a person — and that kind of admiration and respect is a big factor in binding someone in a relationship. I know what a good heart she has, and how empathetic she is with all kinds of people and issues — she's so brilliant on top of it that she can voice these things. And she's as funny as she can possibly be. She makes me laugh.
“We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Letter to William Strahan (1745); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Epistles
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo
DebConf 14: Q&A with Linus Torvalds
DebConf 2014 Portland
Youtube/Google
14min35
2014
Daniel Gillmore, Ana Guerrerero López.
2010s, 2014