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Quotes About Law

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.
~ Kenneth Waltz
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
~ John Dryden
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
~ Henry Adams
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.
~ Matthew Henry
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
~ Martin Luther
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
~ Andrew Marvell
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
~ Herman Melville
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
~ James Madison
Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.
~ Émile Coué
Nature itself cannot err
~ Thomas Hobbes
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
~ Brian Greene
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
~ John Marshall
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
~ Booker T. Washington
The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
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~ Bob Proctor
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
~ Walter Lang
It's a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.
~ Joe Rogan
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
~ Thomas Jefferson
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.
~ Laozi
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
~ John Wilmot
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.
~ Edward Gibbon