Quotes on Law

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself. _x000D_ _x000D_ Only he who combines the two proves true.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.