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The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for… — Kofi Annan
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman to… — Pope Benedict XVI
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such… — Colin Powell
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build… — Vaclav Havel
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs,… — Clifford Geertz
... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This… — Maria Montessori
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. — John Marshall
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes… — Mark Twain
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand. — Lawrence Durrell
Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using… — Cesar Chavez
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human… — Anatole France
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be… — John Ruskin
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton
Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice. — Ambrose Bierce
Justice is incidental to law and order. — J. Edgar Hoover
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty. — George Bernard Shaw
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man. — Aristotle
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. — Jean Giraudoux

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