Quotes on Law

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That's the Law of Consistency. It doesn't matter how talented you are. It doesn't matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

You cannot make men good by law.

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.