Laws Quotes
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"My cat is ignorant of the law. But then so am I. That means I am not his master, because we are both slaves."
"If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic."
"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law."
"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light."
"Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do."
"Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe."
"Great faith overcomes laws of nature that govern physical world."
"Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear."
"I was in another universe with different laws and distinct truth."
"I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter, there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor spiritual ghost. They are also made of matter, but totally different in size andlaws of physics which rule their life and the way they interact."
"If we obey the great laws, we shall be happy."
"Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough."
"What does the Lord God requires of us:To love what is good.To do justice.To do what is right."
"Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in."
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
"Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing."
"In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation."
"When people are forced to respect civil rights and human rights or face legal consequences, they don't like it. Civil rights laws will be scrupulously observed only when people accept that it is morally wrong to oppress or discriminate against fellow human beings. That awareness can come only through education. A law will enable integration in public places, but it does not foster understanding or appreciation in the hearts of people who continue to live with their prejudices."
Arun Gandhi, Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence
"Education Helps To Understand Natural Laws And To Some Extent Spiritual Principles"
"You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do."
"God's great Law is spiritual."
"Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law."
"Let me see what I can come up with,' she said, and seemed to take a new satisfaction in it now. Something wrong to do, a law to break, and if she was lucky she might even get to steal, and it must have been then that everything changed between us and each of us didn't just have a neighbor to pass the time with but the closest thing either of us could find to a friend. ("Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls")"
"The government can make laws but they can’t make people live by these laws"
"First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others."
"This is what happens when the state intervenes in a person’s private life; it creates two separate personas. It compels you either to lead two separate lives, or to violate what’s imposed on youwhen the state isn’t looking."
"Privacy’ is an unusable term. We should instead talk about freedom, autonomy and self-determination of the individual. Being allowed to be yourself, to think whatever you want and to act within the law with no hindrance. That resonates with everyone."
"Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like."
"Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results."
"The government are tightening up on ID for sales of tobacco and alcohol so I recommend that young people take more drugs."
"Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws."
"A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws."
"In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused."
"Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today."
"For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as dependent on context and trust as they are in a story or poem or promise to someone, words whose meanings are subject to erosion, sometimes collapsing in the blink of an eye."
Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
"The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning."
"Kingdom laws do not change"
"Laws by definition do not change"
"You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction."
"Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act."
"Before you reprimand or condemn people on a particular act, make sure you have worked on yourself overtime such that you can't be found guilty of such act; if not you will be a victim of your own laws and rules"
"Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding."
"Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity."
"Disobey God and you are forgiven. Disobey Nature and you get disease."
"Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things."
"What is right is the ultimate law and trumps the law of the land."
"LORD God, please give us grace to obey thy great laws."
"It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testament laws - because they fundamentally reject Christ as the New Covenant - which replaced all that.They are not Christians - they are Leviticans."
"Don’t forget the laws of God."
"Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do."
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