Quotes with law-makers

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  • Camille Paglia All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Collier All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Ban Ki-moon All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • W. H. Auden America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Andrew Carnegie And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Shirley Lord Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
    Shirley Lord
     
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  • Ban Ki-moon Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Raymond Chandler At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Baseball has the largest library of law and lore and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
    Source: Sports Illustrated, 17 April 1989
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Josh Billings Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Malcolm X Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • George Bancroft Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Alexander Pope Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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