Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

Henry David Thoreau

I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

Henry David Thoreau

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

Henry David Thoreau

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusion; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed.

Henry David Thoreau

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

Henry David Thoreau

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

Henry David Thoreau

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau

The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.

H. Allen Smith

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

H. L. Mencken

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner

Jean-Marie Le Pen

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Jean Genet

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Jillian Bach

TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

Jill Sobule

And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

Jessica Hagedorn

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

Jessica Hahn

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

Jerry Hall

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

Jeremy Corbyn

When legal aid was first introduced in 1949, the late Arthur Skeffington said that the law at that time was like The Ritz, in that those who could afford to pay had access to it, while those who could not did not.

Jeremy Bentham

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

Jeremy Bentham

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Jeremy Bentham

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes ...

Jeremy Bentham

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Jeremy Bentham

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Jennifer Egan

Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their own. "Who's paying you?" was a retort that might follow any bout of enthusiasm, along with laughter - who would let themselves be bought?

Jeff Sessions

To every American, he [Donald Trump] is saying to them, "You elect me and we're going to fix the lawlessness at this border."