Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spike Lee

Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.

Sigmund Freud

In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

Shereen El Feki

Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as equals. If we are going to stop the spread of HIV in our lifetime, then that is the change we need to spread.

Shaun White

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

Shakti Gawain

One law of energy is this: energy of a certain quality or vibration tends to attract energy of a similar quality and vibration.

Shakti Gawain

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful

Scott Turow

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

Scott Turow

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

Richard Blumenthal

This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.

Swami Vivekananda

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

Swami Vivekananda

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

Swami Vivekananda

All law has its essence in causation.

Swami Vivekananda

All is bound by the law of causation

Swami Vivekananda

This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind, is within Maya; for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space, and causation is within Maya.

Thurgood Marshall

The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.

Thorstein Veblen

English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection.

Robert Anthony

Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about.

Robert Anthony

The universe is like a river. The river keeps on flowing. It doesn't care whether you are happy or sad, good or bad; it just keeps flowing. Some people go down to the river and they cry. Some people go down to the river and they are happy, but the river doesn't care; it just keeps flowing. We can use it and enjoy it, or we can jump in and drown. The river just keeps flowing because it is impersonal, and so it is with the universe. The universe that we live in can support us or destroy us. It's our interpretation and use of the laws that determine our effects or results.

Robert A. Heinlein

Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

Robert A. Heinlein

The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.

Robert A. Heinlein

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

Robert A. Heinlein

By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.

Robert A. Heinlein

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Robert A. Heinlein

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

Robert A. Heinlein

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

Tim O'Brien

A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

Thomas Troward

It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

Steven Soderbergh

Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.

Tom Shadyac

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

Tom Tancredo

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

Viktor Yushchenko

Respect for the law must be the basis for all legal action.