Law Quotes - Page 59

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.

It's our flaws who make us who we are.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.

I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.

In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.