Quotes of: Moral-law Keyword

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

Rufus King

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Andrew Marvell

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you're in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It's a great trick.

Stephan Pastis

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

Elizabeth Emken

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

Bill Gates

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Charles Tupper

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Herman Melville

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Henry David Thoreau

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Erik Erikson

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

George W. Bush

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Trofim Lysenko

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Doris Lessing

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

F. Lee Bailey

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.

Clarence Darrow

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Charles de Montesquieu

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

Hugo Munsterberg

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

H.G. Wells

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Howard Zinn