Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Being thankful is also the law of increase. What we give thanks for is automatically multiplied. If we have only a dime… — Robert Scheid Copy Share Image
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for… — Jamie Gorelick Copy Share Image
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“Law of Suspects. Suspects are those: who have in any way aided tyranny (royal tyranny, Brissotin tyranny...); who cannot show that they… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. "But we live in a world of laws," I… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system,… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
For nearly five years, I worked with Marquette University Law School and helped to administrate a community crime prevention initiative called Safe… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I will miss the contact with the people - the privilege of trying to communicate to people every day that the court… — Steven Pacey Copy Share Image
For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation… — George Will Copy Share Image
We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of… — Marion Kirkland Reid Copy Share Image
I think so many people have taken biblical scriptures out of context on this, to say stuff like, 'Well, Jesus was a… — Paula White Copy Share Image
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.… — James Allen Copy Share Image
In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
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