Legal Obligation

Famous quotes containing the words legal and/or obligation:

“If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)

“No obligation to do the impossible is binding.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)