Life is a near-death experience.
George CarlinRead
Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote questions the inconsistencies in laws regarding the sale of items that can be freely given away.
George Carlin's quote challenges the absurdity of legal restrictions on selling items that are otherwise perfectly acceptable to give away for free. It prompts an examination of societal norms and legal frameworks that govern commerce and personal autonomy, encouraging deeper thought about the nature of ownership, value, and freedom of choice in transactions.
Themes
LawFreedomValueCommerceSociety
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a debate about the legal system during a law class.
More from George Carlin
All quotes →Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car."
George CarlinRead
If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.
George CarlinRead
This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.
George CarlinRead
Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people.
George CarlinRead
Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.
George CarlinRead
Similar quotes
Your house is your larger body.
Khalil GibranRead
When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
Ajahn BrahmRead
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
Jacques MonodRead
Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.
C. S. LewisRead
The failure of market catallactics in no way denies the following truth: given sufficient knowledge the optimal decisions can always be found by scanning over all the attainable states of the world and selecting the one which according to the postulated ethical welfare function is best. The solution 'exists'; the problem is how to 'find' it.
Paul SamuelsonRead