Quotes of: Rule-of-law Keyword

Divide and rule.

Traditional

[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

I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" — a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brav...

Eat, Pray, Love

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

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

Kent Conrad

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

Loretta Young

The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.

Eumeswil

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

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

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, ...

The German Ideology

Loving your work doesn’t mean finding a job you can tolerate for eight hours a day, but rather a job that gets you flying out of bed in the morning like a Jack Russell who just had a firecracker stuffed up his ass.

The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By

Unless you're in an early seventies-era Eagles cover band, a founding member of a religious cult, or sleeping under a bridge in Seattle, lose the beard and get a haircut. Power doesn't have time for any form of hirsute hipster self expression.

The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By

Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

Solomon vs. Lord

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Helen Frankenthaler

Every game has rules. Life’s a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game!

Shaping the dream

Success has NO Rules except ONE.. It follows NO rules and most RULES are made on the way!

Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core

Learn the rules before you break them.

The Writer's Book of Wisdom: 101 Rules for Mastering Your Craft

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Rick Wakeman