Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

Frank Herbert

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

Frank Herbert

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

Frank Herbert

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

Frank Herbert

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Frank Herbert

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

George H. W. Bush

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

H. Rap Brown

I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.

Jesse Ventura

I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

Jesse Ventura

I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law.

Jesse Ventura

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

H. P. Lovecraft

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

H. P. Lovecraft

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.

George Herbert

Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

Jay Roach

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

Jay Nixon

So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It's also highly populated. So we're working a number of water rescues. We're working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we're keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It's been pretty cold.

Jay Leno

Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.

Kurt Loder

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

Kirk Cameron

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

Kim Young-sam

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

Karl Liebknecht

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

Karl Marx

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Karl Marx

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Jules Verne

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Jules Verne

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jude Law

Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!

Jude Law

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

Josh Fox

Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.

Joseph Joubert

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Joseph Joubert

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of His law and ordinances.

Murray Rothbard

Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.

Murray Rothbard

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.