Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

C. S. Lewis

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

C. S. Lewis

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have to obey the laws with respect to security classifications,

Rick Hind

Usually the laws are relatively weak and have been written by lobbyists for the industry.

William Shakespeare

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

Robert Wagner

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

Ellen Key

At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.

Harlan Watson

We need to pursue our international efforts in a spirit of cooperation ? not coercion ? with a true sense of partnership,

Richard Bergenheim

It is always difficult to see someone speaking under coercion and under these circumstances. We are seeking more information about the letter that Jill refers to in the video. We remain in constant contact with Jill's family and are still doing everything possible to obtain Jill's release.

Dorothy Richardson

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Niall Ferguson

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

Murray Rothbard

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

Tom Daschle

coercion is not his first option, but it's an option.

Herman Kahn

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

George F. Kennan

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

Nelson Mandela

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

George H. W. Bush

Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

Ernest Holmes

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

Patrick Ness

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

Jack Canfield

What is the why behind everything you do?

Martin McDonagh

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Simon Sinek

Great communicators don't just hear the words. Great communicators hear the meaning behind the words