Quotes about la
land community care
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. Wendell Berry
land disease poverty
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. Wendell Berry
land people feelings
Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings. Wendell Berry
law justice competition
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. Wendell Berry
land space water
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery. Wendell Berry
land people
You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land. Wendell Berry
law mind association
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. Walter Pater
laughing worry kind
I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right now, it's coming back again. Walter Mosley
land
The land belongs to the future. Willa Cather
land people pioneers
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while. Willa Cather
law judging public-opinion
Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... Warren E. Burger
law leader troops
For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated. Warren Buffett
law pay lucky
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that. Warren Buffett
law gdp reelection
I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection. Warren Buffett
land bourgeoisie slave
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands. Vladimir Lenin
land bread soviet
Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet! Vladimir Lenin
land dwelling problem
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved. Vladimir Lenin
law violence bourgeoisie
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws. Vladimir Lenin
labels limits boundaries
Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross. Wayne Dyer
law miracle knows
You'll be happy to know that the universal law that created miracles hasn't been repealed. Wayne Dyer
law justice priorities
The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world. Walter Cronkite
law would-be internet
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet. Walter Cronkite
larks plunge
What a lark! What a plunge! Virginia Woolf
law way causes
The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it. William Blackstone
law optics action
Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey. William Blackstone
law judging declaring
The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others. William Blackstone
law evil sorcery
To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits. William Blackstone
law community violation
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. William Blackstone
law people embodiment
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people. William Blackstone
law two scripture
The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these. William Blackstone
laughing joy sorrow
Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not! William Blake
lasts firsts principles
Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last. William Blake
law government lions
One law for lion and ox is oppression. William Blake