Laws Quotes

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Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future. — Brian Greene
As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his equal… — Alexander H. Stephens
There are ideas that exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws — Charles Brockden Brown
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories… — John Lennox
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state,… — Aeschines
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased. — Aeschines
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics -… — Paul Davies
Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves… — Paul Davies
Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the… — Dean Kamen
The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity. — E. O. Wilson
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is… — Cardinal Richelieu
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative,… — Herman Wouk
Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority. — William J. Clinton
Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped.… — Yuri Gagarin
Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to… — Laurence J. Peter
Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws. — Confucius
It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have. — Blanche Lincoln
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind,… — L. Ron Hubbard
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the… — M.C. Escher
I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,— not only as… — James McCosh
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules… — George Herbert
My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning… — David Suzuki
I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a… — Walter E. Williams
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. — Leon Trotsky

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