Tacitus Quotes

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles.

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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
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Happy
  • Law
  • Influence

• But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Power
  • Law
  • Government

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Law
  • Moral
  • Ethics

• I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • School
  • History
  • Law

• What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Law
  • Control
  • Victory

• Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Different
  • Law
  • Psychology

• Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Media
  • Social Media

• My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

  

  Ian Watson
  • World
  • Father
  • Law

• Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Future
  • Law
  • Picture

• So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • World
  • Law
  • Action

• Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Man
  • Law

• 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
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven

• In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Law
  • Nothing
  • Legal

• Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Action

• I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Men
  • Law
  • Guilty

• The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

  

  Charles Macklin
  • Science
  • Law
  • Justice

• I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Opposition

• The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Band
  • Politics

• Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tick. But to find a character like Kai, who is so far that he doesn't even feel things, he is so different from me. That is the most exciting part.

  

  Chris Wood
  • Different
  • Character
  • Energy

• Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it’s supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There’s nothing sadder. Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Horse

• In all things there is a kind of law of cycles.

  

  Tacitus
  • Law
  • All Things
  • Cycles