One can be addicted to either lawlessness or lawfulness…

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

— Frank Herbert

On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine law. Indeed,…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast…

— Rand Paul

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't…

— M. J. Ryan

“How would you judge the lawfulness or unlawfulness of "pleasure?" Use this rule: Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures…

— Susanna Wesley

Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever,…

— Charles Spurgeon

All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out…

— Frank Herbert

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience,…

— Robert Southey

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in…

— Susanna Wesley

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any…

— Max Planck

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you…

— Samuel Johnson

Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing: if it be…

— Francis Quarles

What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless…

— Empedocles