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One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.
What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.
What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?
Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.
Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.
We either have a country or we don't. America is a country of laws. We either have a border or we don't.
Let's get this straight now: a Senate impeachment trial is not a court of law. It's a court of politics.
If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.
No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.
Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.
The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.
There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.
All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.
Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best.
Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.
What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!
Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.
The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.
We have never had the will to enforce the immigration laws. What you see is what you'll continue to get.
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.
How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.
The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.