Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

Mark Victor Hansen

The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

Mark Victor Hansen

This is an absolute law: You've got to be rich inside to become and remain rich outside. Become rich inside and your mental equivalent will manifest in your experience.

Mark Hopkins

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Mark Buchanan

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Mark Batterson

Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.

Mark Batterson

The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.

Mikhail Gorbachev

There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government.

Mikhail Gorbachev

History punishes those that come late to it.

Nicholas Johnson

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

Neil Abercrombie

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.

Neil Abercrombie

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.

Neelie Kroes

I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.

Neil Armstrong

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.

Nathan Myhrvold

The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'

Nathan Myhrvold

Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little bit of lemon juice - or, in other words, make mayonnaise - you are using the principles of physics and chemistry. Understanding how those principles affect cooking lets you cook better.

Naomi Weisstein

Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.

Nadine Gordimer

In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Naguib Mahfouz

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Mo Ibrahim

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

Miuccia Prada

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

Mitt Romney

But I am pro-life and will intend, if I’m president of the United States, to encourage pro-life policies. [...] And I hope to appoint justices to the Supreme Court that will follow the law and the constitution. And it would be my preference that they reverse Roe v. Wade and therefore they return to the people and their elected representatives the decisions with regards to this important issue.

Mireille Guiliano

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

R. C. Sproul

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

R. C. Sproul

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

R. C. Sproul

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.