Quotes with law-enforcement

Quotes 281 till 300 of 419.

  • Henry David Thoreau The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest virtue is always against the law.
    Conduct of Life (1876) Worship
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Edward Coke The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
    Prohibitions del Roy
    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • David Hume The law always limits every power it gives.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Vauvenargues The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Adolf Loos The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Aristotle The law is reason, free from passion.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Quentin Crisp The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Raymond Chandler The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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  • James Allen The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Edgar Quinet The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Alvin Toffler The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Greg Anderson The Law of Win/Win says, ''Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Bernard Joseph Saurin The law often permits what honor prohibits.
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  • Bertolt Brecht The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Anatole France The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
    Original: La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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