Henrik Ibsen Quotes

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

Henrik Ibsen

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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
  • Law
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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
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  • Power
  • Science

• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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• School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  

  Gary Bauer
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  • Law
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• Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Law
  • Police
  • Gun

• He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Law
  • Thinks
  • Inexorable

• When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • You
  • Law
  • City

• There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Law
  • Very

• The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Man
  • Law
  • Justice

• It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Why
  • Job
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• I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
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  • Law
  • Marriage

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
  • Natural

• There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • You
  • Law
  • Rule

• One with the law is a majority.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Law
  • Majority
  • Legal

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Conscience
  • Court

• At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.

  

  Sally Yates
  • People
  • Time
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• There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.

  

  Beverly D'Angelo
  • She
  • Mother
  • Law

• Islam Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.

  

  Abul A'la Maududi
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  • Legislation

• I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Enjoy
  • Sake

• There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Judged