Quotes 201 till 220 of 240.
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There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
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There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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There's reason good, that you good laws should make:
Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio XXIV, To The Parliament, lines 1-2. -
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
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We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.
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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
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Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
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