Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stossel

Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.

John Podesta

The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.

John Perry Barlow

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

John Piper

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

John Piper

Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For 'the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.'

Martin Luther

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

Martin Luther

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

Martin Luther

If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.

Martin Luther

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

Martin Luther

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

Martin Luther

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

Martin Luther

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

Martin Luther

A unjust law, is no law at all.

Martin Luther

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Martin Luther

Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.

Martin Luther

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

Martin Luther

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

Martin Luther

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

Martin Luther

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

Mark Steyn

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

Moses Mendelssohn

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

Moses Mendelssohn

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.

Seth Lloyd

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

Seth Lloyd

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

Ravi Zacharias

The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.

Tom Colicchio

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

Simon Wiesenthal

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

Rajneesh

Buddha says if you surrender the ego, if you surrender yourself, you come in a harmony with the law and everything starts happening on its own. You have but to surrender. If you are ready to disappear, you will be full of the law and the law will take care.

Socrates

What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?

Socrates

Laws are not made for the good.

Mel Watt

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

Michael Specter

Flu is easily transmitted, so if you are working with sick people - who are most at risk for getting seriously ill - you ought to be vaccinated. I am not really equipped to say whether it should be the law or not.

Michael Scott

But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.