“There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.”

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Young and others v. The King (1789), 3 T. R. 102.

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“It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.”

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Reg. v. Gibson (1887), 18 Q. B. D. 537; 16 Cox, C. C. 181.

“But what are you supposed to do in a society that’s corrupt? Are you supposed to obey corrupt laws? Is it a crime to break a law that’s a rotten law, or an oath that’s rotten?
“It’s a crime,” Cartwright admitted slowly. “But it may be the right thing to do.”
“In a society of criminals,” Shaeffer offered, “the innocent man goes to jail.”
“Who decides when the society is made up of criminals? Benteley demanded. “How do you know when your society has gone wrong? How do you know when it’s right to stop obeying the laws?”

Philip K. Dick book Solar Lottery

“You just know,” Rita O’Neill said fiercely.
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“Whatever at common law might be amended in civil cases, was at common law amendable in criminal, and so it is at this day.”

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The Queen v. Tutchin (1704), 1 Salk. 51 pl. 14.

“In the “fulfillment” of both the laws and duty, … the moral disposition ceases to be the universal, opposed to inclination, and inclination ceases to be particular, opposed to the law.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher

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“I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.”

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist

The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
Context: I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one. On that basis it would not, as a matter of policy merely, be an economical institution.

“It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there can be no offense.”

Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba

Ibid. p. 53
History Will Absolve Me (October 16th, 1953)

“I emphasise again that people who participated in the 2000 uprising with criminal intent, as established by the police, will continue to be subject to the full force of the law. The Bill is not intended to provide relief to those who used the coup for their own gain or other criminal intent.”

Laisenia Qarase (1941) Prime Minister of Fiji

14 June 2005
Additional remarks about the proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission

“Certain forms of sex which do not lead to children are at present punished by the criminal law: this is purely superstitious, since the matter is one which affects no one except the parties directly concerned… The peculiar importance attached, at present, to adultery is quite irrational… Moral rules ought not to be such as to make instinctive happiness impossible.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

1920s, What I Believe (1925)

“There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.”

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