Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Engels

Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved that explanation and prediction could be based on laws which accounted for the observed phenomena as functions of comparatively few variables-either particular facts or relative frequencies of events.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

Friedrich Schiller

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Friedrich Schiller

The first great law is to obey.

Frederick Soddy

Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole communities. It results from this that, however complicated a series of phenomena may be and however many other sciences may enter into its complete presentation, the purely physical aspect, or the application of the known laws of matter and energy, can always be legitimately separated from the other aspects.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

George Gaylord Simpson

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

Jon Meacham

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

Jon Kyl

Big guy and little guy, it should make no difference. The rule of law demands neutrality.

John Yoo

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

John Yoo

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

Johnny Cash

He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

Luc Ferrari

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

Sherwood Boehlert

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.

Nick Hanauer

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Nikos Kazantzakis

For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.

Nigel Rees

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you.