Law Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, Justice, Judging

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

  Rick Warren

  Government, Hands, Individual

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

  Nick Hanauer

  Ideas, Fundamentals, Needs

  Source: gawker.com

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• When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Wind, Physics, Seems

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicidal, Rights, Israel

  "Jimmy Carter takes on Israel’s Apartheid Policies and the Pro-Israeli Lobby in the US". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2006.

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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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• In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Matter, Facts

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Responsibility, People, Justice

  "Voices from the Catholic Worker". Book by Rosalie Riegle Troester (p. 114), 1993.

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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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• 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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• As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and since musical ideas have been presented... So we shall try to put our finger on the laws that must be at the bottom of this.

  Anton Webern

  Order, Ideas, Musical

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

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• The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.

  Adam Leipzig

  Creativity, Creating, People

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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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• It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Photography, Art, Opinion

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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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• Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Reason, Faculty, Discovering

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• The law doesn't create a right.

  Jack Kevorkian

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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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• I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Liars, Lying, Believe

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• Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Husband, Divorce, Total Equality

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