Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Kropotkin

All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes! In place of the cowardly phrase, Obey the law, our cry, is Revolt against all laws!

Peter Kropotkin

But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing whence it comes, what are its uses, and whither arises the obligation to submit to it, and the reverence with which it is encompassed. The rebels of our day are criticizing the very foundations of society which have hitherto been held sacred, and first and foremost amongst them that fetish, law.

Peter Kropotkin

While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress.

Peter Kropotkin

In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

Peter Kropotkin

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

Peter Kropotkin

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

Peter Brook

The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.

Phil Gramm

Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

All just laws condemn cruelty.

Pierre Trudeau

What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

Philip Pullman

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.

Pythagoras

Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God

Pythagoras

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

Plato

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Terence McKenna

This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

Randall Jarrell

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

Randall Terry

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

Randall Terry

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.

Randall Terry

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

Randall Terry

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest virtue is always against the law.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Selma Blair

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

Sean M. Carroll

We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.

Sean Hannity

Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

Scott McClellan

Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.

Shirin Ebadi

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Shimon Peres

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

Lesley Stahl

It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.