Quotes about law
law doubt firsts
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw. Nigel Rees
law ideas radical
Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? Nigel Farage
law europe everyday
Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.
law ethics modernity
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
law land needs
It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land. N. R. Narayana Murthy
law history firsts
Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics. Morris Raphael Cohen
law decision mass
Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
law tongue christ
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. John Wycliffe
law strange constancy
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange. John Wilmot
law eight imitation
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. John Wooden
law bread charity
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work. John Ruskin
law construction adapted
The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.
law form shows
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.
law liberty utterance
If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.
law want toil
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
law ideas purpose
When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it. John Polkinghorne
law criticism poetic
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Matthew Arnold
law ifs
If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law. Matt Taibbi
law bullshit humanity
Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.
law-of-attraction enthusiasm-for-life needs
Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life. Maxwell Maltz
law grace fiction
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. Max Stirner
law libertarian-party liberty
The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime
law important natural
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid. Max Weber
law ideas atheism
Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn't make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God. Max Born
law house law-breakers
The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house. Matthew McConaughey
law england christianity
Christianity is part of the laws of England. Matthew Hale
law broken endorsements
If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws. Mark Shields
law prejudice adults
A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society. Maria Montessori
law lightning mills
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. Mary Stewart
law customs subordinates
Laws are subordinate to custom. Plautus
law littles uncertain
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
law littles ticklish
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.]
law innovation musical
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them, Plato