Law Quotes - Page 25

• I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Strong, Kings

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• Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

  John Galsworthy

  Public Opinion, Opinion

  John Galsworthy (2009). “25 Plays”, p.478, Wildside Press LLC

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• Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.

  Errico Malatesta

  Military, Taken, Mean

  "Anarchy". Pamphlet by Errico Malatesta, www.marxists.org. 1891.

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• The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis.

  Federico Fellini

  Children, Eye, Race

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.

  Robert M. Edsel

  Thinking, People, Use

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

  Austin O'Malley

  Ships, Rudders, States

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• Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

  John Buchan

  Divine Justice, Together, Needs

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.803, e-artnow

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• No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

  Livy

  Majority, Convenience, Satisfied

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 3,

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• The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ideas, Honor, Important

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Turn in the South”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and disease operate according to fixed natural laws. Every so often, though, problems impinge on us so directly that we stretch beyond that mildly deistic stance and ask God to intervene. When a drought drags on too long, we pray for rain. When a young mother gets a diagnosis of cervical cancer, we solicit prayers for her healing. We beseech God as if trying to talk God into something God otherwise might not want to do.

  Philip Yancey

  Country, Mother, Prayer

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• Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

  Anton Webern

  Art, Mean, Unity

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.

  Joseph Gurney Cannon

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  "Uncle Joe Cannon" by L. White Busby, (p. 278), 1927.

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• I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.

  Gregory Peck

  Believe, Political Opinions, Odds

  "Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life". Book by Lynn Haney, p. 167, 2003.

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• I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.

  Rashida Jones

  School, Judging, Challenges

  "Rashida Jones and Chris Pratt Talk Parks and Recreation". Interview with Brian Gallagher, www.movieweb.com. October 30, 2009.

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• For the provision of God constantly to be at work in our lives we must activate the laws of God.

  Phil Pringle

  Provision, Our Lives, Activate

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• Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

  John Kasich

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: time.com

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• This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Christianity, Old Testament

  "Ann Coulter Thinks That Jews Need to be Perfected by Becoming Christians" by Larisa Alexandrovna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2007.

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• Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

  Frank Herbert

  Giving, Mind, Gathering

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.218, Penguin

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• I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness - to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself.

  Naum Gabo

  Events, World, Want

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, 2010.

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• We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Suffering, Needs

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.293, Routledge

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• The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

  Johannes Itten

  Power, Color, Creative

  Johannes Itten, Bauhaus (1975). “Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus and later”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind.

  Antony Flew

  Mind, Divine, Flew

  Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.100, InterVarsity Press

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• China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

  Ai Weiwei

  Justice, People, Effort

  "Ai Weiwei told not to leave China as bail conditions lifted" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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• Christian holiness is not a matter of painstaking conformity to the individual precepts of an external law code; it is rather a question of the Holy Spirit's producing His fruit in the life, reproducing those graces which were seen in perfection in the life of Christ.

  F. F. Bruce

  Christian, Perfection, Grace

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• Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash

  Enrico Bombieri

  Loss, Science, Paper

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