Quotes About Law

Stop looking for signs. Signs follow; they do not precede. Begin to reverse the statement, "Seeing is believing," to "Believing is seeing." Start now to believe, not with the wavering confidence based on deceptive external evidence but with an undaunted confidence based on the immutable law that you can be that which you desire to be. You will find that you are not a victim of fate but a victim of faith (your own).

One of the greatest pitfalls in attempting to use the law of assumption is focusing your attention on things, on a new home, a better job, a bigger bank balance. This is not the righteousness without which you "die in your sins" [John 8:24]. Righteousness is not the thing itself; it is the consciousness, the feeling of already being the person you want to be, of already having the thing you desire.

It is a delusion that, other than assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you can do anything to aid the realisation of your desire. You think that you can do something, you want to do something; but actually you can do nothing. The illusion of the free will to do is but ignorance of the law of assumption upon which all action is based. Everything happens automatically.

Stand still in the psychological state defined as your objective until you feel the thrill of Victory. Then, with confidence born of the knowledge of this law, watch the physical realisation of your objective.

If we could master our inner conversations to mirror our desires on a daily basis, as if they were true, as if they were happening now, then all our desires would manifest, it is law.

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained

rather than constitutional right.

He found it hard to understand that the sea was a law unto itself, beyond anyone's control.

Even in the United States, after all, what brought equal rights to blacks wasn't the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments passed after the Civil War, but rather the grassroots civil rights movement nearly one hundred years later. Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

After the Saudi plutocrat Khalid bin Mahfouz used English law to attack books that American houses had not even published in England, President Obama signed a law that stated that the US courts should not enforce the orders of English judges against American authors.

The law should restrict itself to punishing speech that directly provokes crime – incitement to murder, incitement to violence or incitement to arson. It should not punish incitement to hatred, because it is not a crime to hate people, any more than it is to envy them or to lust after them.

Like homophobic conservatives, who worry that if societies' taboos go, the promotion of homosexuality will turn young people gay, they worry that if the law allows unpalatable views to escape unpunished, hatred will turn to violence.

Peter found that the best polarised stress patterns were produced by using condoms. This led to the occasion when the van and our road crew were pulled over by the police one night. The officers of the law were intrigued to find one of the crew, John Marsh, cutting up a pile of condoms on the front seat of the van. 'Don't worry about him,' said Peter calmly. 'That's our roadie – he's mad.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

The plethora of laws is a sign that nobody knows anymore how to command intelligently. Or that nobody knows anymore how to obey freely. When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

De menselijke warmte in een samenleving wordt minder naar de mate waarin haar wetgeving volmaakter wordt.

As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called "human rights" serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive law. The individual has no more rights than the benefit that can be inferred from another's duty.

Neither a declaration of human rights, nor the proclamation of a constitution, nor an appeal to natural law, protects against the arbitrary power of the state. The only barrier to despotism is customary law.

Wird einem Demokraten ein Finger brandig, fällt ihm nur eines ein: Ein Gesetz zu fordern, das das Abschneiden aller Hände anordnet.

Die Tyrannei eines Individuums ist dem Despotismus des Gesetzes vorzuziehen, denn der Tyrann ist verwundbar und das Gesetz unkörperlich.

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Maybe law is closer related to art than most of us are aware of. But art and power do often stand in a strained relationship.

In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.