Above and below Quote by Catherine Wilson

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man…

— Bertrand Russell

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

— Gerry Spence

In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law…

— Frederick Lenz

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.

— Bertrand Russell

“Their reasons for asking us to be both law-abiding and superior were not reasons we could find the conscience to discount, and so control…

— Philip Roth

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are…

— Samuel Butler

“Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is the same…

— Todor Bombov

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

— Mark Helprin

“In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law: "more often…

— Terry Nardin

“The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defence; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose…

— Frédéric Bastiat

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws…

— Leon M. Lederman

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

— Albert Einstein