Quotes About Laws

Practicing deception to conceal one's true goals and regarding moral principles and laws as applicable to others but not to oneself are the core concepts of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object, of his being.

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience as can be imagined.

So great is the force of laws, and of particular forms of government, and so little dependence have they on the humors and tempers of men, that consequences almost as general and certain may sometimes be deduced from them, as any which the mathematical sciences afford us. . . . It may . . . be pronounced as an universal axiom in politics, That an hereditary prince, a nobility without vassals, and a people voting by their representatives, form the best monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God's voice.

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.