R.J. Rushdoony Quotes

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

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• I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Good
  • Think
  • Challenge

• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Power
  • Help

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Wish

• The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Golf

• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Children
  • Law
  • City

• For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Chance

• 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

• Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Good
  • Children
  • Pretty

• I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Good
  • Career

• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Alone

• At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Like
  • Always

• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Men
  • She
  • Girl

• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Job
  • History
  • Society

• An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm against the president's health care law because I don't agree that it's going to achieve its goals. I believe in the goals.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Health

• We showed the world you could enjoy being a footballer; you could laugh and have a fantastic time. I represent the era which proved that attractive football was enjoyable and successful, and good fun to play too.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Interesting

• Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Good
  • Men
  • Society