Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terence McKenna

This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

Selma Blair

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

Kate Millett

Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.

Linus Torvalds

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

Leo Tolstoy

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

Peter Brook

The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.

Pythagoras

Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God

Pythagoras

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

Joseph Hume

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

Joseph Hume

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

Joseph Hume

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

Kevin Kelly

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

Rahm Emanuel

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

Sean Penn

Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.

Lenny Bruce

You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.

Thomas Aquinas

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

Joseph Prince

Under the law, even the best failed. Under grace, even the worst can be saved!

Otto von Bismarck

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

Paul McCartney

If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.

Jon Stewart

Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. Quote: 'The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.' Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

Katha Pollitt

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

Kate Atkinson

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

Joseph McCabe

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.

James Madison

Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence first of a majority of the people, and then of a majority of the states.

James Madison

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.

James Madison

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

James Madison

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

Erik Erikson

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Eric Liu

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

Emma Goldman

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.