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All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.
Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.
As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.
Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.
I'm prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.
There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.
Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!
The laws of thermodynamic s are such that if the water is getting warmer - and I believe it is - the energy of the weather is going to go up.
Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts.
If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.
It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.
There was a loophole in the law that said if I was working, I could be in the clubs as long as I didn't drink alcohol and had someone with me.
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.
I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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.
Stand by the side of law enforcement, the men and women who are often the only semblance of hope and justice in the crime-ridden inner cities.
[Donald Trump] will appoint an attorney general, who will send very clear messages about how law enforcement is to be pursued in this country.
On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.
We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.
Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.