Quotes of: Moral-law Keyword

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Alexander Cockburn

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

Bainbridge Colby

Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.

Ivica Dacic

The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

David Novak

On this ship, my word is fucking law! Captain Josiah Trenchard. UWSS Might of Fortitude.

Life

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Vittorio Alfieri

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Voltaire

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

Wesley Snipes

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

Walter Scott

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

Walter Wager

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Anthony Lewis

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Rand Paul

Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly contradicting the moral basis of slavery, writing "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endo...

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

I shook my head. "I'm good, Nicky helped." Nicky looked at Edward. "She's having one of those what-if-killing-feels-really-good, doesn't-that-make-me-a-bad-person moments." Edward nodded as if that made perfect sense. "Then it feels good. We can't re...

Affliction

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor...

Letters and Autobiographical Writings

Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jo...

Kurt Vonnegut

The notion that evil is non-rational is a more significant claim for Eagleton than at first appears, because he is (in this book [ ] as in others of his recent 'late period' prolific burst) anxious to rewrite theology: God (whom he elsewhere tells us...

Anthony C. Grayling

He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.

The Candle in the Wind