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

I say, break the law.

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.

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-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

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

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.

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.

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.

Estelle Parsons

I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.

Esther Hicks

If you look in The Science of Getting Rich, you see no reference whatsoever to the law of attraction.

Esther Hicks

Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming

Esther Hicks

If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention to them. Without knowing about Law of Attraction, you have - through your old habit of observation - achieved vibrational harmony with the parts of them that you do not like, and you keep summoning those parts from them by your constant vibrational offering of them.

Esther Hicks

When you are focused upon something that you desire, then through the Law of Attraction, more and more thoughts about what you desire will be drawn, and you will feel greater positive emotion. You can speed the creation of something simply by giving it more attention—the Law of Attraction takes care of the rest and brings to you the essence of the subject of your thought.

Esther Hicks

You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.

Esther Hicks

There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.

Esther Hicks

My path is about Joy.

Esther Hicks

There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts.

Esther Hicks

Whatever you are giving your attention to, already has a vibration of its own, and as you give your attention to it, you include its vibration in your vibration...and then your point of attraction is affected.

Esther Hicks

Today no matter where I'm going, no matter what I'm doing, no matter who I'm doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for and find things that feel good when I see them, when I hear them, when I smell them, when I taste them, when I touch them. It is my dominant intent to solicit from experience and exaggerate and talk about and revel in the best of what I see around me here and now.

Esther Hicks

When you feel good, you're allowing good. When you don't feel good, you are not allowing good.

Esther Hicks

The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.

Esther Hicks

There is nothing that you cannot be, do, or have.