Quotes of: Natural-laws Keyword

There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end there. The law authorizes a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in certain situations. The law allows all people to use de...

Robert P. McCulloch

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

The Spirit of the Laws

The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

Marion Barry

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its appare...

Sadhana

1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational order, established among creatures for their good and to serve their final end, by the power, wisdom, and goodness o...

Catechism of the Catholic Church

[Lewis and Drew are arguing about whether to bury the dead mountain man] Drew: It is a matter of the law! Lewis: The law! Ha! The law! What law? WHERE'S THE LAW, DREW? HUH? [sarcastically] Lewis: You believe in democracy, don't you? Drew: Yes, I do. ...

Deliverance

A mother-in-law may be good, but she is better when mother earth covers her up.

Catalan

Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and retain the property he creates through his own labor, and to be treated impartially before a just law. Mor...

Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America

This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit; for we cannot exist long without the destruction of other animal or vegetable beings either in their mature or em...

A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

Mike Lowry

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

Shannon Miller

The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. . . Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?

Solomon Northrup

Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day on the surface. Sand turns traitor, and betrays the footstep that has passed over it; water gives back to the tell-tale s...

No Name

Bass: The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon... it lies. Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave? Edwin Epps: Ha! Bass: Suppose! ...

12 Years a Slave

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their oppo...

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Natural law has decreed it so. Isn't death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe the flow splashes into a bottomless pit past that blind turn.

Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are ex...

George Edward Woodberry

The law (of least effort) asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven ...

Thinking, Fast and Slow

This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?

Where is Science Going?

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't ther...

Pat Robertson