Laws Quotes

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
David Mitchell

Life, Strong, Deep

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Jean Piaget

Self, Same, Action

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
Charles Macklin

Good, Bad, Actions

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.
Tom Colicchio

Made, Seen, Stick

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
Tryon Edwards

Faith, Science, Sometimes

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.
Kevin Rudd

Children, Country, Suffering

And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!
Jan Brewer

Job, Mean, Said

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
Werner Herzog

Same, Film, Sure

There are laws for peace as well as war.
Titus Livius

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.
Selma Blair

Play, Wish, Security

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.
Raoul Dufy

Down, System, Follow

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
Huston Smith

Nature, Human, Social

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
George Edward Moore

Good, Moral, Actions

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
Daniel D. Palmer

God, Judge, Father

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
William Shenstone

Great, Alone, Through

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
Jane Siberry

Music, Nature, Young

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.
Jane Siberry

Music, Understand, Training

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
Jane Siberry

Live, Getting, Changed

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card

Against, Books, Behavior

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
Angela Davis

Great, Society, Black

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Charles de Secondat

Liberty, Whatever, Permit

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Charles de Secondat

Person, May, Liberty

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
Charles de Secondat

Since, Act, Might

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
Charles de Secondat

Physical, Governed, Bodies

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.
Murray Gell-Mann

Love, Nature, Study

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
Grover Cleveland

After, Almost, Existence

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover Cleveland

Made, Public, Officers

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
Hans Hofmann

Work, Same, Makes

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
Hans Hofmann

Nature, Spiritual, Different

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank

Nature, Judge, Jury

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