Famous Quotes & Sayings

Archilochus

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

Anthony Weiner

Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Anthony Weiner

More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

Ben Okri

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

Barbara Jordan

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

Bainbridge Colby

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Baruch Spinoza

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

Baruch Spinoza

Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

Baruch Spinoza

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Baruch Spinoza

Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

Barbara Olson

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

Auguste Comte

History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.

Vanessa Redgrave

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

So far, the law is working as intended.

Dennis Prager

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.

Denis Healey

Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.

Demosthenes

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Denis Hayes

Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.

Denis Diderot

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Dean Koontz

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Edgar Allan Poe

The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.

Edgar Allan Poe

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

Elbert Hubbard

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

Elbert Hubbard

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

Elbert Hubbard

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

Elbert Hubbard

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

Eileen Caddy

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being.

Eileen Caddy

Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen.