Quotes of: Supreme-law Keyword

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Aristotle

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

David E. Kelley

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

P. J. O'Rourke

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

Paul Watson

There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.

Serge Schmemann

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

Henry Miller

[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

Otto von Bismarck

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.

Paul Broun

There's nothing that can defy the law of movement. Everything was created to move including the biggest of our mountains.

Paul Bamikole

The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.

Patrick Hamilton

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Pablo Picasso

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

Philip Sidney

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

Robert Benchley

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

Robert Bork

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

Robert Byrne

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Rocco Buttiglione

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

Russ Feingold

Law does, "because God said so!"; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so.

D.R. Silva

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Theodor Adorno