Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
-
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
-
Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
-
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
-
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
-
I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
-
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
-
My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
-
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
-
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
-
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
-
Anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after with the full extent of the law.
-
Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.
-
The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
-
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
-
I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.
-
It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
-
Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.
-
It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
-
More law, less justice.
