Quotes about law
law rebellion tyranny
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right. Simon Bolivar
law campaigns donation
I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws. Sheila Jackson Lee
law earth facts
The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
law differences religion
Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities. Swami Vivekananda
law class survival
According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.
law india study
Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.
law giving language
Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing. Tony Robbins
law people may
There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured. Tony Benn
law relaxation cloning
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning Tony Abbott
law parent understanding
The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements Tony Blair
law democracy frozen
The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society. Thurgood Marshall
law effort requirements
English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection. Thorstein Veblen
law-of-attraction insane belief
Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about. Robert Anthony
law rivers people
The universe is like a river. The river keeps on flowing. It doesn't care whether you are happy or sad, good or bad; it just keeps flowing. Some people go down to the river and they cry. Some people go down to the river and they are happy, but the river doesn't care; it just keeps flowing. We can use it and enjoy it, or we can jump in and drown. The river just keeps flowing because it is impersonal, and so it is with the universe. The universe that we live in can support us or destroy us. It's our interpretation and use of the laws that determine our effects or results.
law moral-behavior survival
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. Robert A. Heinlein
law bugs privacy
The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.
law way written
Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.
law people statistics
By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.
law schedules megalomania
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
law political mind
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
law seems
It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.
law imagination miracle
A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind. Tim O'Brien
law causes range
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect. Thomas Troward
law fear-god magistrates
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
law quality quests
Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something. Steven Soderbergh
law violent-acts safe
The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law. Tom Shadyac
law people politics
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law. Tom Tancredo
law libertarian-party government
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence. Tom C. Clark
law two important
There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines. Tim Ferriss
law libertarian commonwealth
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt Tacitus
law numbers government
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
law precedent found
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
law kind cycles
In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]