Quotes with in-laws

Quotes 221 till 240 of 240.

  • Marilyn French Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Bobby Jindal When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.
    Source: A Theory of Roughness
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Caleb Cushing When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • William Golding Which is better: to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
    Source: Lord of the Flies
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Benjamin Hoadly Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
    Source: Sermon before the King of England, 31 March 1717
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  • Aristophanes Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Hermann Hesse You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Ambrose Bierce An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Fuller The more laws, the more offenders.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Simone Weil There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Anacharsis Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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