Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanley Fish

Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

Tacitus

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

Tacitus

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

Tacitus

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Tacitus

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

Tacitus

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Tacitus

In all things there is a law of cycles.

Tacitus

Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

Tacitus

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Swami Vivekananda

No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.

Swami Vivekananda

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

Swami Vivekananda

Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction; and there will come a time when those particles will separate. This is the eternal law. So, wherever there is a body - either grosser or finer, either in heaven or on earth - death will overcome it.

Swami Vivekananda

Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.

Swami Vivekananda

The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"

Roy Moore

That's not the federal law. What you're confusing is law with the opinion of a justice, what one lone federal judge says is not law.

Roy Moore

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

Ron Wyden

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.

Ron Wyden

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.

Ron Wyden

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

Samantha Power

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

Rumi

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

Tom Robbins

The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.

Tom McClintock

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

Tom Fitton

We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.

Tom DeMarco

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

Steve King

You might call that a peaceful invasion [of Muslims] but that`s the nicest thing can you call it. They`re not assimilating and they`re not assimilating because Sharia law is incompatible with the Constitution of the United States.

Steve King

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

Stephen Covey

Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.

Stephen Hawking

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

Stephen Hawking

Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.

Stephen Hawking

One can't prove that God doesn't exist, but science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.