Benjamin Wittes Quotes
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
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Abortion is the taking of a life.
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I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.
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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.
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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.
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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
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In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical - the human world of violence and difference - and to reach the transcendent or divine. You’re moved to write a poem… But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms. In a dream your verses can defeat time, your words can shake off the history of their usage, you can represent what can’t be represented, but when you wake, when you rejoin your friends around the fire, you’re back in the human world with its inflexible laws and logic.
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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.
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If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice, I hold on to what is true. I will believe.
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I generally favor permissive abortion laws.
