Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.Alexis de Tocqueville
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright -
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 -
I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
Aaron Rodgers -
It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
Randall Terry -
If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
Yves Behar -
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
Eddie Trunk
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
Kate Atkinson -
The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
Vince Vaughn -
I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
Idris Elba -
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso -
They can say I have an opinion about something.
Dan Abrams
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
Yuna -
The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
Aaron Rodgers -
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
Barry Commoner -
I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!
Rachel Stevens -
I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
Gavin Newsom -
In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'
J. C. Watts
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You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.
Jerry Lewis -
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell -
I'm more of a seat of my pants, heat of the moment kind of person, which lends itself well to hosting and acting, but not necessarily going, "Oh, what is my shot list? That's right, I needed to work on a shot list."
Zachary Levi -
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.
Plato -
Moral: Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
James Thurber -
In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.
Alexis de Tocqueville