Kapil Sibal Quotes

A demonstration sometimes doesn’t stop with expressing opinion….it moves to incitement to violence and then to violence

Is this Chamber to be the hot-bed in which plants of sedition are to be nursed?

No colonist shall organize any assemblage or meeting or conspiracy in the said colony

Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.

Anything against the state's interests, through a non-violent action, is susceptible to be considered sedition.

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

I am proud to be a traitor to America.

Treason is murder against the nation

Anyone, who intentionally participates in an action intended to harm the security, peace and leadership of the institutions in Kurdish-Iraq, will be punished by a life sentence or temporary prison sentence

Anyone, who intentionally takes part in an action intended to harm the state government, the unity of the state or the security of its territory, will be hanged

Was it not you, or such like advisers, that dissuaded her and stirred her up against us and other of the subjects?

Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, or say or do anything with intent to obstruct the sale by the United States of bonds ... or the making of loans by or to the United States, or whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause ... or incite ... insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct ... the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag … or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States, or any language intended to bring the form of government ... or the Constitution … or the military or naval forces … or the flag … of the United States into contempt, scorn, contumely, or disrepute … or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully … urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production in this country of any thing or things … necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war … and whoever shall willfully advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both

I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

All have the right to speak, do whatever they want in democracy, but no one will be allowed to destabilise the country or create violence.

It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence, especially because when we make these kinds of pronouncement and do things that can cause violence or destruction of lives and property, we are no longer in control.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

he will become a malcontent and possibly espouse and give additional weight to the opposition to the Government .

If our Constitution is destroyed, if our right to free speech is denied, then we have the right to use whatever means necessary to survive and advance our position.

There can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government ... too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think that it will give some comfort to the enemy to know that there is such criticism. If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome to it as far as I am concerned, because the maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great deal more good than it will do the enemy, and will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur.

This machine kills Fascists!!

Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.