Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hu Jintao

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

Howard Staunton

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

Honore de Balzac

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Honore de Balzac

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Honore de Balzac

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Honore de Balzac

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Honore de Balzac

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Harold Pinter

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

James D. Watson

I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

James Bovard

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

James Bovard

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

James Bovard

There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

James Bovard

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

Jacques Chirac

The law must have the last word.

Jacques Derrida

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.

James G. Frazer

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

James Callaghan

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

J. William Fulbright

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

Isaac Asimov

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

Isaac Asimov

Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

Isaac Asimov

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

Isaac Asimov

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Isaac Asimov

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

Immanuel Kant

Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Ich solle niemals anders verfahren, als so, dass ich auch wollen k o« nne, meine Maxime solle ein allgemeines Gesetz werden. I ought never to act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe. The more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

Immanuel Kant

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence."

Immanuel Kant

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

Immanuel Kant

No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.