Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marian Wright Edelman

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

Marian Wright Edelman

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

Maria Cantwell

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

Mark Victor Hansen

The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

Mark Victor Hansen

What you want, wants you.

Mark Victor Hansen

This is an absolute law: You've got to be rich inside to become and remain rich outside. Become rich inside and your mental equivalent will manifest in your experience.

Mikhail Gorbachev

There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government.

Nicholas Johnson

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

Neelie Kroes

I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.

Neil Armstrong

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.

Nathan Myhrvold

The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'

Nathan Myhrvold

Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little bit of lemon juice - or, in other words, make mayonnaise - you are using the principles of physics and chemistry. Understanding how those principles affect cooking lets you cook better.

Nadine Gordimer

In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Naguib Mahfouz

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Mo Ibrahim

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

Mitt Romney

But I am pro-life and will intend, if I’m president of the United States, to encourage pro-life policies. [...] And I hope to appoint justices to the Supreme Court that will follow the law and the constitution. And it would be my preference that they reverse Roe v. Wade and therefore they return to the people and their elected representatives the decisions with regards to this important issue.

R. C. Sproul

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

R. C. Sproul

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

R. C. Sproul

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.

Publilius Syrus

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

Publilius Syrus

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

Publilius Syrus

Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.

Preet Bharara

Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.

Pope Paul VI

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.