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Image of Eliezer Yudkowsky
Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Collection: Law
Image of Jesse Ventura
I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.
- Jesse Ventura
Collection: Law
Image of Matthew Hale
Christianity is part of the laws of England.
- Matthew Hale
Collection: Law
Image of Samantha Power
Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
- Samantha Power
Collection: Law
Image of Gary Becker
Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.
- Gary Becker
Collection: Law
Image of Marc Morial
A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.
- Marc Morial
Collection: Law
Image of Stephen Breyer
This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions.
- Stephen Breyer
Collection: Law
Image of Stephen Breyer
You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts
- Stephen Breyer
Collection: Law
Image of Stephen Breyer
It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty
- Stephen Breyer
Collection: Law
Image of Henry Latham Doherty
As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.
- Henry Latham Doherty
Collection: Law
Image of Liz Kessler
You can't make people stop loving each other just because a law says it's wrong.
- Liz Kessler
Collection: Law
Image of Anne Bishop
When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
- Anne Bishop
Collection: Law
Image of Hakim Bey
Nature has no Laws — only habits.
- Hakim Bey
Collection: Law
Image of Billy Sunday
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
- Billy Sunday
Collection: Law
Image of Maurice Strong
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.
- Maurice Strong
Collection: Law
Image of Rick Scott
I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land. The law of Florida is that if you're a noncitizen, you don't vote in these races.
- Rick Scott
Collection: Law
Image of Hesham Qandil
I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.
- Hesham Qandil
Collection: Law
Image of James Otis
The people's safety is the law of God.
- James Otis
Collection: Law
Image of Kurt Gödel
The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field is as unlikely as the separation of the atmosphere into its components. The complexity of the living things has to be present within the material, from which they are derived, or in the laws, governing their formation.
- Kurt Gödel
Collection: Law
Image of Kurt Gödel
The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.
- Kurt Gödel
Collection: Law
Image of Isaiah Berlin
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.
- Isaiah Berlin
Collection: Law
Image of Susan Cooper
Any great gift of power or talent is a burden ... But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law.
- Susan Cooper
Collection: Law
Image of Trevor Phillips
You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.
- Trevor Phillips
Collection: Law
Image of Sophie Scholl
Laws change. Conscience doesn't.
- Sophie Scholl
Collection: Law
Image of Benjamin Constant
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
- Benjamin Constant
Collection: Law
Image of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
Collection: Law
Image of Marie Stopes
The most complete human being is he or she who consciously or unconsciously obeys the profound physical laws of our being in such a way that the spirit receives as much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible.
- Marie Stopes
Collection: Law
Image of John Howard Griffin
This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.
- John Howard Griffin
Collection: Law
Image of Joe Strummer
Strummer's Law: No input, no output.
- Joe Strummer
Collection: Law
Image of Lesley Stahl
It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.
- Lesley Stahl
Collection: Law
Image of Ambrose Bierce
A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
- Ambrose Bierce
Collection: Law
Image of Wallace Stegner
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.
- Wallace Stegner
Collection: Law
Image of O.R. Melling
Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law.
- O.R. Melling
Collection: Law
Image of Alfred Russel Wallace
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways
- Alfred Russel Wallace
Collection: Law
Image of David Boies
It was important for the Supreme Court to say it’s a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity that comes from being married to the person you love.
- David Boies
Collection: Law
Image of Ariana Franklin
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.
- Ariana Franklin
Collection: Law
Image of Waris Dirie
Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.
- Waris Dirie
Collection: Law
Image of Jack Vance
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
- Jack Vance
Collection: Law
Image of John Millington Synge
Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.
- John Millington Synge
Collection: Law
Image of Otto von Bismarck
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
- Otto von Bismarck
Collection: Law
Image of Catherine Jinks
Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.
- Catherine Jinks
Collection: Law
Image of Orson Pratt
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God
- Orson Pratt
Collection: Law
Image of Sam Rayburn
Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.
- Sam Rayburn
Collection: Law
Image of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Collection: Law
Image of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Collection: Law
Image of Wayne LaPierre
Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.
- Wayne LaPierre
Collection: Law
Image of Wayne LaPierre
Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.
- Wayne LaPierre
Collection: Law
Image of Katha Pollitt
When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.
- Katha Pollitt
Collection: Law
Image of Walter Wriston
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.
- Walter Wriston
Collection: Law