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• While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Class, Age, Nucleus

  Peter Kropotkin (2002). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Confused, Taken, Heaven

  Peter Kropotkin (1927). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made a religion; moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Children, Hero, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (1927). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.

  S. R. Ranganathan

  Depressing, Book, Home

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

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Husband, Divorce, Total Equality

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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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• You cannot make a demand on your life that exceeds your belief about it. Your belief is creating a personal law. It’s not the truth, but a lie believed will act like a law until it’s neutralized.

  Derek Rydall

  Lying, Creating, Demand

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• Mistaken
  regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
  life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
  are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
  unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.

  Madison Grant

  Race, Community, Sentimental

  Madison Grant (1922). “The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History”

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• I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.

  Estelle Parsons

  Missing, Sass, Wrecks

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• By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  People, Statistics, Coincidence

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Unions, Arms

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

  Walter Lippmann

  Order, Common, Interest

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.106, Transaction Publishers

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• ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Government, Agreement, Names

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.284, Courier Corporation

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• For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Believe, Self

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• The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Ideas, Movement, World

  Peter Kropotkin, George Woodcock (1993). “Fugitive writings”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

  George Eliot

  Music, Echoes, Broken

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.64

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• By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Ideas, Feet, Light

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.364, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

  Henry Ford

  Government, People, Moments

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.6, 谷月社

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• The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

  George Eliot

  Bows, Willpower, Divine

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1907, ShandonPress

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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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• A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

  George Herbert

  Rooms, Action, Divine

  'The Elixir', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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