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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right… — Anthony Kennedy
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people… — Thomas Huxley
If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly,… — Gerald Heaney
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a… — Gerald Heaney
The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in accordance with the… — Unknown Author
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay… — Gore Vidal
Every individual's purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an unlimited individual, deprived… — Mark Victor Hansen
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their… — Ludwig von Mises
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is… — George Stigler
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the… — Augustin Thierry
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any… — Wendell Berry
It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform… — Maurice Strong
There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could… — John Holdren
Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what… — James Hansen
It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics. — Al Gore
The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms… — Unknown Author
Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination. — Hillary Clinton
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.… — Albert Einstein
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more… — Karl Popper
Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist. — Clyde Kluckhohn
Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality. — Hillary Clinton
It is often the case that laws must change before fears about change dissipate. — Hillary Clinton
As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there. — Arthur C. Clarke
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly… — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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