William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598) English statesman
Said in 1585.
Simonds D'Ewes, The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (1682), p. 350.
on Russian lawmakers (2006). Itogi (Russian language Magazine), No 4/554 (January 22, 2007) http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2007/4/28882.html <br class="br">Original: Весь криминальный мир уже в депутатах!
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598) English statesman
Said in 1585.
Simonds D'Ewes, The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (1682), p. 350.
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
As quoted in Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime, Richard Pipes, New York: NY, Vintage Books, 1995, p. 252, and in Yvon de Begnac, Palazzo Venezia: Storia di un Regime, Rome, 1950, p. 361.
Undated
“In my whole legal career I have not met worse types of criminals than in politics.”
Chittaranjan Das (1870–1925) Indian politician and leader of the Swaraj Party
Chittaranjan Das, quoted from Sri Aurobindo, ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches. Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). https://web.archive.org/web/20170826004028/http://bharatvani.org/books/ir/IR_frontpage.htm
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Speech to the Electors of Bristol (3 November 1774); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1834)
1770s
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron
Doe d. Willis and others v. Martin and others (1790), 4 T. R. 65.
“The most tyrannical dictatorships the world has known have existed under the aegis of parliaments.”
Muammar Gaddafi book The Green Book
The Green Book (1975)
The Green Book (1975)
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation (1943)
Context: The proportions of good and evil in any society depend partly upon the proportion of consent to that of refusal and partly upon the distribution of power between those who consent and those who refuse.
If any power of any kind is in the hands of a man who has not given total, sincere, and enlightened consent to this obligation such power is misplaced.
If a man has willfully refused to consent, then it is in itself a criminal activity for him to exercise any function, major or minor, public or private, which gives him control over people's lives. All those who, with knowledge of his mind, have acquiesced in his exercise of the function are accessories to the crime.
Any State whose whole official doctrine constitutes an incitement to this crime is itself wholly criminal. It can retain no trace of legitimacy.
Any State whose official doctrine is not primarily directed against this crime in all its forms is lacking in full legitimacy.
Any legal system which contains no provisions against this crime is without the essence of legality. Any legal system which provides against some forms of this crime but not others is without the full character of legality.
Any government whose members commit this crime, or authorize it in their subordinates, has betrayed its function.
Thomas Flanagan (political scientist) (1944) author, academic, and political activist
Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 8, Staying Power of the Status Quo, p. 120.
Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011) American pathologist, euthanasia activist
Quoted in "Jail: An Inmates Survival Guide" - Page 24 - by Panama Publishing, Inc. - 2007
2000s, 2007
“I look upon him as the greatest criminal known for having plunged the world into war.”
George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936) King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
Alleged statement about his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (1918)
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