Quotes About Law

The anxiety has always been within himself, a battle of himself against himself, so tortuous he might have welcomed the law's intervention.

It came home to him then that he was separated from the people round him -- not as yet by bolts and bars, by prison walls, or by the sentence of the law, but by the intangible barriers which have separated the murderer from his kind ever since the mark was set on Cain.

The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.

Hay una ley de suma importancia en la conducta humana. Si obedecemos esa ley, casi nunca nos veremos en aprietos. Si la obedecemos, obtendremos incontables amigos y constante felicidad. Pero en cuanto quebrantemos esa ley nos veremos en interminables dificultades. La ley es ésta: Trate siempre de que la otra persona se sienta importante.

To break the worry habit before it breaks you—here is Rule 3: "Let's examine the record." Let's ask ourselves: "What are the chances, according to the law of averages, that this event I am worrying about will ever occur?

Much, not all, of the anti-government sentiment in the United States today is thinly veiled hatred of law and exaltation of brutal self-will. Thus it easily slips over into "righteous wrongdoing.

Jesus and his words have never belonged to the categories of dogma or law, and to read them as if they did is simply to miss them.

If a law had been given capable of bringing people to life," Paul said, "then righteousness would have come from that law" (Gal. 3:21). But law, for all its magnificence, cannot do that. Graceful relationship sustained with the masterful Christ certainly can.

Whatever country you live in, any law based on "glory" instead of real harm is dangerous. The glory of the nation, or the glory of the monarchy, or the glory of the superior race, or the glory of the church have been the cause of horrible wars and legally sanctioned discrimination. Any laws based solely on these glories should be morally denounced. They cause unnecessary harm.

Mere Morality can be summarized as: using instinct, law, and reason as guides, try to act with the intention of minimizing harm.

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

The beauty of a living organism-be it good or evil-is that it will follow the law of God with singular vision. Be fruitful and multiply. -Bertrand Zobrist

A fizika törvényszer?ségei a vászon, amelyet Isten azért feszített ki, hogy arra fesse rá mesterm?vét.

had been Mirandized. And a perfectly good adjective had been made into a verb.

I speculated, not for the first time, that the sanity of the nation would be much improved if children and adults were required by law to eat in separate public establishments.

His only consolation was Carrington's favorite John Locke quote. The first law of nature is self-defense. It

It has happened that a species has tried to live in violation of the Law of Limited Competition. Or rather it has happened one time, in one human culture—ours. That's what our agricultural revolution is all about. That's the whole point of totalitarian agriculture: We hunt our competitors down, we destroy their food, and we deny them access to food. That's what makes it totalitarian.

Newton's achievement was not in discovering the phenomenon of gravity, it was in formulating the phenomenon as a law.

No undesirable behavior has ever been eliminated by passing a law against it.

THIS LAW THAT YOU HAVE so admirably described defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war." "Yes. As you said, it's the peace-keeping law.

it's the work of animism to read the Law of Life that is written in the community of life.

Like our imaginary airman, they were totally unaware that there is a law that must be complied with in order to achieve civilizational flight.

"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law."

We have an incredible warrior class in this country – people in law enforcement, intelligence – and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.