Quotes of: Moral-law Keyword

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Alvin Toffler

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

Portia de Rossi

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

Love

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

William Howard Taft

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

Yusuf Hamied

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

Jon Porter

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

Larry Elder

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

Luke Harding

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

Manmohan Singh

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

Carolyn McCarthy

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

John Henry Newman

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

Marco Rubio

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. What the president should have done, in the unlikely event that he wanted the ...

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beautiful musical allegory had shown its moral side, had become an awakening and a summons to a life vocation. The imperative form of...

The Glass Bead Game

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned. His own happiness is man’s only moral purpose, but only his own virtue can achieve it…Life is the reward of virtue- and...

Atlas Shrugged

I often feel the pressure, from my peers and others, to come out and “take a stand” on a moral or social issue. Typically, I refuse to do so, or at least I refuse to do so in a way that will please my critics. On so many of the hard and divisive ...

The Jesus Tribe: Following Christ in the Land of the Empire

We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be hard enough in this odd world we have been born into. We have to bear witness to moral principles which the world owned yesterd...

In Soft Garments: A Collection of Oxford Conferences

It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our spouses were not going to show up out of the blue. It was hard to start a sexual relationship in circumstances of such bizarre uncert...

A Short Stay in Hell

[L]asting love is something a person has to to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural—not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will. . . . This isn't ...

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Perhaps vaguely aware that his movie so completely lacks gravitas, Moore concludes with a sonorous reading of some words from George Orwell. The words are taken from and consist of a third-person analysis of a hypothetical, endless and contrived war ...

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays