Famous Quotes & Sayings

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Samora Machel

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

Samuel Alito

I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and fairness. He read the record in detail in every single case that came before me; he insisted on scrupulously following precedents.

Samuel Adams

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Sydney J. Harris

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Joseph Hume

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

Joseph Hume

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

Joseph Hume

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

Joseph Farah

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

Kofi Annan

Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures.

Kevin Kelly

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

Rahm Emanuel

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

Sean Penn

Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.

Li Keqiang

No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

Les Claypool

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

Lenny Bruce

You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.

Joan Chen

Even a year ago I was talking about going to law school. Because the lawyers I know get to meet a lot of different people.

Joseph Campbell

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

James Baker

At some point, the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home. We have reached that point,

Viviane Reding

At present I see very different interpretation of laws in different countries.

At the advisement of law enforcement, we paid,

We think it violates the international maritime law and we have made several representations to the U.S. side,

To us this is law and nobody can turn back on it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.

Robert Kiyosaki

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time’.

Paul Watson

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

Anna Jameson

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.