Quotes about la
language feels i-can
I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more. Antony Sher
law differences giving
In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen: ... Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Frederic Bastiat
law voting liberty
The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property. Frederic Bastiat
law justice liberty
...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent. Frederic Bastiat
law two evil
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose. Frederic Bastiat
law organization government
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. Frederic Bastiat
law greed political
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it. Frederic Bastiat
law justice principles
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice... Frederic Bastiat
law people independence
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds. Frederic Bastiat
law acting may
The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property. Frederic Bastiat
law long purpose
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Frederic Bastiat
law doe property
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property. Frederic Bastiat
law injustice organize
Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice. Frederic Bastiat
law giving doe
The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder. Frederic Bastiat
law evil liberty
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. Frederic Bastiat
law rights trying
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property rights. If you cannot do so, then you must agree that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice. Frederic Bastiat
law liberty alternatives
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. Frederic Bastiat
law two greed
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy. Frederic Bastiat
law judging police
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal. Frederic Bastiat
laughter writing two
That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled. Diablo Cody
law littles too-much
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. Derek Bok
labels fundamentals
When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things Denzel Washington
laughing hard processors
Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh. Denis Norden
laughter shows malicious
If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it. Denis Norden
laughter eye hands
Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves. Denise Levertov
law-of-attraction secret-law-of-attraction attraction
When you visualize, then you materialize. Denis Waitley
laughing make-me-laugh
I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. Denis Leary
law substance income
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. Dee Hock
language speak foreign-language
My subconscious speaks in a foreign language. Deb Caletti
law rights hair
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights. Dick Durbin
language legislation sloppy
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. Dick Cavett
laughing wife bird
This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it. Diana Gabaldon
laughing want said
Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you? Diana Gabaldon