Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacque Fresco

The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.

Henry Rollins

What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.

Henry Rollins

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

Henry Rollins

I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

Henry Rollins

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

Henry Adams

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

Henry A. Kissinger

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.

Henry Hazlitt

Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be achieved by such a law can exceed the possible harm only in proportion as its aims are modest. The more ambitious such a law is, the larger the number of workers it attempts to cover, and the more it attempts to raise their wages, the more likely are its harmful effects to exceed its good effects.

Henry Hazlitt

The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

Henry Hazlitt

The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.

Henry David Thoreau

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Mallory Ortberg

Tenancy laws can be so complicated; I want to make sure OP is protected as much as possible.

Malcolm X

We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

Malcolm X

But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.

Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

Mahatma Gandhi

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

Mahatma Gandhi

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

Mahatma Gandhi

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

Mahatma Gandhi

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

Mahatma Gandhi

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.