The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.
Interpretation
Law must be respected by all, regardless of political disagreements.
This quote emphasizes the fundamental principle that all political parties have a responsibility to uphold the rule of law. Even in situations where they may disagree with certain laws or governmental decisions, they must not encourage violations of the law, as doing so undermines the foundation of a fair and just society.
In practice
During a political rally to emphasize the importance of legal compliance.
We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.
Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.
I have to feel myself doing what's right. If I'm the arbiter of that instead of letting the guy on TV be that or someone who doesn't know me at all, then I think that's a much better way to live.
If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and keep your eyes peeled.
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.
Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.
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