Best Lawful Quotations
118 Lawful quotes by 97 unique authors
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not…
— Immanuel Kant
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
— Robert E. Lee
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to…
— H. L. Mencken
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
— William Penn
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
— Quintilian
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider…
— John Ruskin
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Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
— Naomi Wolf
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I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate…
— Albert Einstein
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each…
— C.S. Lewis
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If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
— C.S. Lewis
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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.
— Cassandra Clare
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
— William Golding
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O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.
— William Shakespeare
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In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little…
— George R. R. Martin
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
— Guy de Maupassant
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Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it…
— William Shakespeare
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Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about…
— Rudy Giuliani
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It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.
— Lucian
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Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.
— John Calvin
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Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts…
— Guru Nanak
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Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
— Dorothy Parker
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