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Law Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as…
- Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
- Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
- There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
- Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
- The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who…
- There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
- Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with…
- Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
- In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are…
- Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
- 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
- Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal…
- A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;…
- The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied…
- Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out…
- If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe…
- People say law but they mean wealth.
- Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed…
- No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
- He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate…
- Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate…
- There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
- The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
- The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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- 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