Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
“The 2015 legislation concerning “coercive control” was also a step forward, attempting to tackle the techniques other than violence that are used… — The Guardian Copy Share Image
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
An investigation found the specific people who authorized the warrantless wiretapping of millions and millions of communications, which per count would have… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say. — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints. — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this… — Werner Gitt Copy Share Image
There is no quicker way to earn respect as a leader than being slow to speak. It is called listening and it… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants. — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“Everybody is equal. Everybody! That's the law." "They are? Only from on top.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image