Laws Quotes

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I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall… — Abraham Lincoln
The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws… — Rudolf Steiner
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals… — Calvin Coolidge
Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space… — Viktor Schauberger
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed… — John B. S. Haldane
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as laws are natural,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws. — Aristotle
Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had… — John Calvin
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness;Â by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws. — Paramahansa Yogananda
There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on… — Louie Gohmert
I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not… — Juan Carlos Onetti
AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature. — Pat Buchanan
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact,… — Cornelius Castoriadis
We have taken the glorious gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to… — Paul Washer
The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But… — J C Ryle
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the… — Thomas Merton
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends. — Rudolf Steiner
There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which… — Felix Frankfurter
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process… — Byron White
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. — Anne Hutchinson
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate… — Alan Kay

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