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Image of Jack London
Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
- Jack London
Collection: Law
Image of Thabo Mbeki
I am quite convinced that we need to increase the resources that go to municipalities if we want the municipalities to do the things the Constitution and the law say they must do. It can't be avoided.
- Thabo Mbeki
Collection: Law
Image of John Adams
I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.
- John Adams
Collection: Law
Image of Martin Luther
We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Law
Image of Rod McKuen
Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.
- Rod McKuen
Collection: Law
Image of Samuel Adams
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
- Samuel Adams
Collection: Law
Image of John Quincy Adams
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!
- John Quincy Adams
Collection: Law
Image of James Madison
Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.
- James Madison
Collection: Law
Image of John Adams
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.
- John Adams
Collection: Law
Image of Orison Swett Marden
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
- Orison Swett Marden
Collection: Law
Image of James Madison
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the state legislatures, without some constitutional mode of enforcing the observance of them? . . . This power must either be a direct negative on the state laws, or an authority in the federal courts, to over-rule such as might be in manifest contravention of the articles of union.
- James Madison
Collection: Law
Image of Malcolm X
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Law
Image of James Madison
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.
- James Madison
Collection: Law
Image of Terence McKenna
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Law
Image of John Adams
I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.
- John Adams
Collection: Law
Image of H. L. Mencken
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Law
Image of Terence McKenna
This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Law
Image of Pedro Calderon de la Barca
All just laws condemn cruelty.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Collection: Law
Image of Martin Luther
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Law
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: Law
Image of James Madison
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many.
- James Madison
Collection: Law
Image of Martin Luther
Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Law
Image of Malcolm X
Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Law
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
He who has annexed them, if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one, that the family of their former lord is extinguished; the other, that neither their laws nor their taxes are altered, so that in a very short time they will become entirely one body with the old principality.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: Law
Image of Martin Luther
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Law
Image of Karl Marx
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Law
Image of John Quincy Adams
I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
- John Quincy Adams
Collection: Law
Image of James Madison
[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.
- James Madison
Collection: Law
Image of H. L. Mencken
Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Law
Image of James Madison
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.
- James Madison
Collection: Law