“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me.… — Earl Felton Copy Share Image
As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The encounters I had were very few, but they were powerful. The negative encounters I've had with law enforcement were very few,… — Bubba Wallace Copy Share Image
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant. — John Locke Copy Share Image
God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been… — John Barrasso Copy Share Image
To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image