Law Quotes
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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Law is mind without reason.
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You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
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The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
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Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
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We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
