Quotes with law-breakers

Quotes 301 till 320 of 415.

  • W. Clement Stone The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Benjamin Walker The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Ben Stein The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Anna Quindlen The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Carolyn Maloney The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Andrew Jackson The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • William O. Douglas The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
    William O. Douglas
    American jurist and politician (1898 - 1980)
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  • Walt Whitman The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Max Stirner The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
    Max Stirner
    German philosopher (ps. by Johan C. Schmidt) (1806 - 1856)
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  • Baltasar Garzon The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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  • Billy Graham The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Clarence Darrow The trouble with law is lawyers.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • William Gilmore Simms The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Charles Evans Hughes The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
    Charles Evans Hughes
    American statesman and Republican politician (1862 - 1948)
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  • Octave Mirbeau The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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  • Edward Gibbon The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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