Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clarence Darrow

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

Daniel Defoe

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

Daniel Dennett

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

Daniel Dennett

After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws of nature, from which natural selection can unfold, to being perhaps just the chooser of the laws. By the time God's role has been so diminished, he becomes a bit like a constitutional monarch, presiding ceremonially but not having any more work to do. That's a place for God if it makes people comfortable to keep God as the presider over the universe. I suppose that is satisfying for many.

David Lodge

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

Dan Brown

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece

Dan Brown

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

Curtis Jackson

You can be a victim, or you can lock and load.

Confucius

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

Confucius

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

Confucius

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

Confucius

Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.

Daniel Webster

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

Daniel Webster

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

Daniel Webster

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

Andre Norton

Either the law exists, or it does not.

Andre Weil

What is crucial is there be laws.

Andrew Cuomo

To be clear... no one is above the law.

Ambrose Bierce

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

Ambrose Bierce

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

Ambrose Bierce

Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.

Ambrose Bierce

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Ambrose Bierce

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

Ambrose Bierce

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

Ambrose Bierce

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Anthony Kennedy

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

Anthony Kennedy

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

Alice Cooper

I came into this life, looked all around. I saw just what I liked and took what I found.

Anne Lamott

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

Anne Lamott

I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.

Anne Lamott

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

Albert Bushnell Hart

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

Albert Claude

We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical fabric of the universe, and that they are also at play in biological processes. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?