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Image of John C. Maxwell
There is no quicker way to earn respect as a leader than being slow to speak. It is called listening and it plays a big role in what I call “The Law of Connection.” How will you know what is important to people unless you ask and listen to the answers? If you prove to be a leader who solicits feedback and pays attention to what’s being said, then you will earn your connection and your followers will respect the guidance you give.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Law
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: Law
Image of Anthony de Mello
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
- Anthony de Mello
Collection: Law
Image of James Madison
In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.
- James Madison
Collection: Law
Image of James Madison
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.
- James Madison
Collection: Law
Image of H. L. Mencken
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Law
Image of Martin Luther
Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Law
Image of Margaret Mead
The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Law
Image of Thomas B. Macaulay
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
Collection: Law
Image of George Lucas
You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process.
- George Lucas
Collection: Law
Image of John Marshall
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
- John Marshall
Collection: Law
Image of John Marshall
Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.
- John Marshall
Collection: Law
Image of John Marshall
No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others, none can make a law of nations.
- John Marshall
Collection: Law
Image of James Madison
Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence first of a majority of the people, and then of a majority of the states.
- James Madison
Collection: Law
Image of Thomas Malthus
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.
- Thomas Malthus
Collection: Law
Image of Thomas Malthus
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their efforts equal, form the great difficulty that to me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society.
- Thomas Malthus
Collection: Law
Image of Judith Martin
Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Law
Image of Dave Barry
Any parent that relies on any law to help him parent is an idiot.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Law
Image of H. L. Mencken
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Law
Image of Martin Luther
The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Law
Image of Karl Marx
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Law
Image of Peter McWilliams
Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no more messing around with legislatures, presidents, or other bothersome formalities. When MDMA (ecstasy) was made illegal in 1986, no elected official voted on that. It was done "in house." People are now in jail because they did something that an administrator declared was wrong.
- Peter McWilliams
Collection: Law
Image of Bill Maher
What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.
- Bill Maher
Collection: Law
Image of Martin Luther
Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Law
Image of Martin Luther
If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Law
Image of Martin Luther
Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Law
Image of H. L. Mencken
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Law
Image of Nelson Mandela
We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Law
Image of H. P. Lovecraft
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Collection: Law
Image of Matthew McConaughey
The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.
- Matthew McConaughey
Collection: Law
Image of Dave Barry
[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Law
Image of Judith Martin
Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Law
Image of Maimonides
I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility, when their existence belongs to the future, does not change the nature of the possible in any way; that nature remains unchanged; and the knowledge of the realisation of one of several possibilities does not yet effect that realisation. This is likewise one of the fundamental principles of the Law of Moses concerning which there is no doubt nor any dispute.
- Maimonides
Collection: Law
Image of George MacDonald
We are not made for law, we are made for love.
- George MacDonald
Collection: Law
Image of John C. Maxwell
The law of process says — leaders develop daily, not in a day.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Law
Image of Bill Maher
The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts.
- Bill Maher
Collection: Law
Image of Richelle Mead
I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.
- Richelle Mead
Collection: Law
Image of  Perche
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- Perche
Collection: Per Mantenersi
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: Law
Image of Nelson Mandela
The laws that stopped blacks from voting were the worst, because they prevented blacks from voting someone into parliament who could change the other laws. Even though the blacks were the majority of the population, they were still not getting a say.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Law
Image of John Adams
Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.
- John Adams
Collection: Law
Image of John Adams
The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.
- John Adams
Collection: Law
Image of James Madison
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.
- James Madison
Collection: Law
Image of Djuna Barnes
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
- Djuna Barnes
Collection: Law
Image of Marilyn Manson
Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.
- Marilyn Manson
Collection: Law
Image of H. L. Mencken
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Law
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Law
Image of H. P. Lovecraft
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Collection: Law