Laws Quotes

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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past… — Roberto Burle Marx
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives.… — David B. Haight
According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies… — Unknown Author
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness — Aeschylus
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the… — George Soros
The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. — George Mason
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The… — John Quincy Adams
The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws. — Barack Obama
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people… — Richard M. Nixon
The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs… — Ron Paul
The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for… — Kofi Annan
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This… — Maria Montessori
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand. — Lawrence Durrell
Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice. — Ambrose Bierce
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher
Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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