Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Glenn

Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

John Flavel

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

John F. Kennedy

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

John F. Kennedy

Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.

John F. Kennedy

Race has no place in American life or law.

John F. Kennedy

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

John F. Kennedy

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

John F. Kennedy

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

John F. Kennedy

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

Jonathan Carroll

If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.

Jon Stewart

Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. Quote: 'The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.' Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

Joyce Carol Oates

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

Katha Pollitt

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

Kate Atkinson

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Panayiotis Zavos

We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

Paracelsus

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.

To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers.

Paul Levine

Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

Paul Levine

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

Paul Martin

I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

Paul McCartney

If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

Pauley Perrette

I'm super-obsessed with law enforcement. I'm what you'd call a 'cop fan.

Paul Verlaine

London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.

Paul Watson

I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.

Pope Benedict XVI

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Pope John Paul II

Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

Pope John Paul II

Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.

Pope John Paul II

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.