If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

When the Tories came to power in 2010, the ground-breaking Equality Act had just become law. But the newly appointed Equalities Minister wasted no time in systematically undermining both the Act itself and the Commission responsible for enforcing it.

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainty out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

We are justified in enforcing good morals for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners for good manners always mean our own manners.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Faith is the confidence the assurance the enforcing truth the knowing.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.