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Law Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
- The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in…
- The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
- There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not…
- One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
- You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man…
- Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
- You cannot make men good by law.
- These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought…
- The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
- The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a…
- To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,…
- Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I…
- Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
- The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those…
- There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does…
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
- Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,…
- He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly…
- I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying…
- It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that…
- The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
- The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid…
- The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be…
More Law Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson