Law without reason is criminal.
– Criss Jami
Related Quotes:
- If a criminal was once a saint & a saint was once a criminal, then who is the criminal & who is the saint? – Sanchit Gupta
- A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown. – Victor Hugo
- A criminal mind needs consideration rather than the criminal itself. In truth, there are more criminals than those who committed a crime. – Harshit Walia
- …But even then you have to reckon with a criminal’s chief vice.”What is that?” Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail. – Agatha Christie
- To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace – Malcolm X
- For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea -” that is, a criminal act accompanied by a criminal state of mind. – Alan Dershowitz
- Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law. – Criss Jami
- Then our crime’s worse than a murderer’s. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. – Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love. – Criss Jami
- Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live. – Criss Jami
- Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law. – DaShanne Stokes
- The way I look at it is this: If you try to obey the law, and the judges call you a criminal anyway, then you might as well live up to the name. – Ken Liu
- Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete. – Criss Jami
- Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight. – Criss Jami
- Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known. – Criss Jami
- Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse. – Criss Jami
- God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you? – Criss Jami
- Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. – Criss Jami
- There is not one harsher, more sure-fire way to fail than that of the man who tries to be like Jesus without submitting to Jesus. – Criss Jami
- You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles. – Criss Jami
- No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn’t. – Criss Jami
- The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity. – Criss Jami
- Self-awareness – the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else. – Criss Jami
- Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it. – Criss Jami
- We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in. – Criss Jami
- I’ve a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast. – Louis LAmour
- if you give people the reasons to reason and you don’t reason, reason! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason. – JM Coetzee
- There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
- The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker. – Criss Jami
- If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking. – Criss Jami
- The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart. – Criss Jami
- Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears. – Criss Jami
- Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa). – Criss Jami
- Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance. – Criss Jami
- People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives. – Criss Jami
- With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. – Criss Jami
- Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little. – Criss Jami
- Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. – Criss Jami
- When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a cl???, not a title. – Criss Jami