Romano Prodi Quotes
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei -
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells -
We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge -
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.
Zhang Zhidong
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There’s a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.
L. Neil Smith -
I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
Felix Frankfurter -
Law can change how people behave when others are watching - that's all.
Orson Scott Card -
Freedom of expression doesn't mean tweeting through fake accounts. If the government has to be transparent, Twitterati should also reciprocate. This will help stop defamatory and criminal traffic on the Net. We should amend the law to force disclosure of identity.
Kapil Sibal -
All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
Vernor Vinge -
To be independent to my mind does not mean to be isolated, to be the priest or the Levite, but rather to be the good Samaritan. There is no real independence save only as we secure it through the law of service.
Calvin Coolidge
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Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
In representing criminal defendants-especially guilty ones-it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense.
Alan Dershowitz -
In law school, I never understood antitrust law. I later found out, in reading the writings of those who now do understand it, that I should not have understood it because it did not make any sense then.
Antonin Scalia -
We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves. We do not think you can do it by national defence. We think you can only do it by moving forward to a new world – a world of law, the abolition of national armaments with a world force and a world economic system. I shall be told that that is quite impossible.
Clement Attlee -
In truth, elite education has become a cattle brand. It signifies lots of things other than knowledge: for some, politically correct certification; for others, good test scores and grades that got them in; for a few, later entry into the alumni ranks of high business, law, academia, government, and the media.
Victor Davis Hanson -
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
Algernon Sidney
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The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
Marion Barry -
Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan -
I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!
Camren Bicondova -
He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.
Lao Tzu -
The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
Wavy Gravy -
I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
Romano Prodi