Quotes 301 till 320 of 791.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
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It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
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It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
Source: The Sherlock Holmes Archives (2017) 342 -
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
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It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
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It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.
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James James
Morrison Morrison
Weatherby George Dupree
Took great
Care of his Mother,
Though he was only three.
James James Said to his Mother,
'Mother,' he said, said he;
'You must never go down
to the end of the town,
if you don't go down with me.'Source: Disobedience -
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love
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Judge - A law student who marks his own examination-papers.
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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