Quotes about laws (6497 quotes, page 65)

“The only way you’re going to pay for it is not by saddling business. All you do by forcing business to pay for health care or passing a law telling people they have to go buy insurance, which is a subsidy for the insurance companies, all these plans are going backwards.”

Mike Gravel (1930–2021) American politician; United States Senator

Huffington post Mash-up: 2007 Democratic Online Debate
Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mashup-transcript-mike-gr_n_64318

People , Health , Business , Way

“The idea that freedom consists in our capacity to choose our ends finds prominent expression in our politics and law. Its province is not limited to those known as liberals rather than conservatives in American politics; it can be found across the political spectrum.”

Michael J. Sandel (1953) American political philosopher

Chap. 1. The Public Philosophy of Contemporary Liberalism
Democracy's Discontent (1996)

Freedom , Idea

“The fundamental... the basic law of life is the law of cause and effect... the law of Karma as they call it in the east. It was put out by Jesus very simply in His time in a way that would be understood by the farmers... as you sow, so shall you reap... it's the basic law of life.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA, (July 2010)

Time , Way , Life

“Descend, descend, Urania, speak
To men in their own tongue!
Leave not the breaking heart to break
Because thine own is strong.
This is the law, in dream and deed,
That heaven must walk on earth!
O, shine upon the humble creed
That holds the heavenly birth.”

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet

"The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99

Strong , Birth , Dreams , Heart

“The brightest representatives of the Islamic diaspora have long figured out how to use this liberalism to blow up the remnants of the nation-state, free themselves from the weak authority of the republic, and establish the law of Allah in their own enclaves.”

Éric Zemmour (1958) French essayist

Will Eric Zemmour become France's Trump? https://www.wyniasweek.nl/wordt-eric-zemmour-de-franse-trump/

“The customs of that most criminal nation have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.”

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

De Superstitione (On Superstition)
Source: Apostle Paul: A Polite Bribe https://books.google.com.br/books?id=wefkDwAAQBAJ&pg=108 by Robert Orlando; p. 108

“The fundamental law of life is the law of cause and effect and therefore we have to be harmless, because if we are destructive, we're destroying the equilibrium of everybody.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

Source: The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA, (July 2010)

Life

“Today there is more acceptance than ever before that women bring different experiences, perspectives, and skills to the table and make irreplaceable contributions to decisions, policies and laws that work better for all. I call upon all stakeholders to join us in this nationwide effort to improve the lives of women, knowing that empowering a woman means empowering a village, empowering a village means empowering communities and therefore empowering the nation.”

Sithembiso Nyoni (1949) Zimbabwean politician

Source: https://www.herald.co.zw/womens-resilience-unmatched/ 'Zimbabwe: 'Women's Resilience Unmatched'

Decision , Women

“We have damaged our reputation in the world and thus reduced our power. We were once seen as the paragon of law; we are now in many corners of the globe the laughing stock of the law.”

Lawrence Wilkerson (1945) Chief of Staff to Colin Powell

Source: Quoted in Lawrence Wilkerson’s Lessons of War and Truth https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lawrence-wilkersons-lesso_b_146443, HuffPost, Nick Turse (26 Dec 2008)

World

“But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man's world, which women will always help to build.””

Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) author

On the female gender (as quoted in https://www.zikoko.com/life/oldies/9-thought-provoking-quotes-from-the-literary-icon-buchi-emecheta/).

Daughters , Hope , Help , World

“The law of nature […] is nothing other than the light of the intellect planted in us by God, by which we know what should be done and what should be avoided. God gave us this light or law in creation.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Original: (la) Lex naturae […] nihil aliud est nisi lumen intellectis insitum nobis a Deo, per quod cognoscimus quid agendum et quid vitandum. Hoc lumen et hanc legem dedit Deus homini in creatione.
Source: On the Ten Commandments (c. 1273) Art. 1

God , Light , Nature

“I object to the suppression of the truth. I think the injustice of not being able to bring light to the situation dissolves all equitable application of the rule of law.”

Paul Gosar (1958) American politician and dentist

Appealing for Tommy Robinson on Twitter, as quoted in * 2018-07-19
Ronald J. Hansen
The Arizona Republic
Paul Gosar takes up for U.K. anti-Muslim activist, is accused of aiding a bigot.
Source: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/07/19/paul-gosar-takes-up-anti-muslim-activist-accused-aiding-bigot/798818002/

Light , Truth , Thinking

“The universal desire among awakened Christians to love God and man is part of the law constantly operating through man when he finds his right relation to God.”

Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) American mystic

Source: Mysteries Of John (1946)

God , Universe , Parting , Love

“All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is based upon this law of soul urge. What you earnestly desire and persistently affirm will be yours, if you "faint not."”

Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) American mystic

Source: Teach Us to Pray with Cora Fillmore (1941)

Soul , Sun

“The Jews form a state, and, obeying their own laws, they evade those of their host country. The Jews always consider an oath regarding a Christian not binding. During the Campaign of 1812 the Jews were spies, they were paid by both sides, they betrayed both sides.”

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891) German Field Marshal

Source: See The Jews https://books.google.com.br/books?id=t_RtAAAAMAAJ by Zuhdī Fātiḥ

Country

“Now, if we establish right here at the beginning that all three of us are supporters of all laws that protect trans people, that we believe in all the dignity, equality, and respect that can be afforded to trans people, can we have an honest, free discussion about this?”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Source: Andrew Yang & John McWhorter on Dave Chappelle and 'Transphobia', (2021)

People , Support

“If we do not have rule of law and effective and transparent judiciary, everything else will start crumbling down.”

Ana Brnabić (1975) Prime Minister of Serbia

Source: "Ana Brnabić: 'I do not want to be branded Serbia's gay PM'" in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/28/ana-brnabic-serbia-prime-minister-interview (28 July 2017)

“The slave trade has another character; it is the very denial of every law, of all social order. Man-hunting constitutes a crime of high treason against humanity. It ought to be repressed wherever it can be reached, on land as well as by sea.”

Auguste, Baron Lambermont (1819–1905) Belgian politician

Source: New Africa; an essay on government civilization in new countries, and on the foundation, organization and administration of the Congo Free State, THE ORIENTAL SLAVE-TRADE, Page 132. https://archive.org/details/newafricaessayon00desciala/page/152/mode/2up Lambermont at the Berlin Conference.

Sea

“In a world of fake news, fake history, fake law, fake diplomacy, it is no surprise to encounter fake democracy along the way.”

Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official

2021

Democracy , History , Way , World

“We have to lead by an example of love. Law is something that is of help, but our guide is the Gospel.”

Konrad Krajewski (1963) Roman Catholic cardinal

Pope’s point man for charity urges world not to forget homeless in vaccination push https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2021/01/popes-point-man-for-charity-urges-world-not-to-forget-homeless-in-vaccination-push (21 January 2021)

Help , Love

“The law has always had difficulty assimilating the implications, if not the very idea, of scientific evidence. Even the most intelligent lawyers, judges, and juries have customarily found it difficult to understand at first.”

James D. Watson (1928) American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.

Source: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 11, “Genetic Fingerprinting: DNA’s Day in Court” (p. 300)

Understanding , Intelligence , Idea

“A court dedicated to pure justice, one that can overrule the law! They didn’t even have one of those back on old Earth!”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 10, “I Am Wilvia/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 69)

Justice

“Ultimately, Chaos brings a more profound stagnation than anything it despises in law. It must forever seek more and more sensation, more and more empty marvels, until there is nothing left and it has forgotten what true invention is.”

Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic

Source: Book 2, Chapter 1 “The Lake of Voices” (p. 197), Corum, The Queen of the Swords (1971)

“I've heard both the founding stories of Google and Yahoo, and for both those companies, the founders didn't even have to get into a car. They could literally go to the law office, the venture capitalists, the bank... on a bike. It's all that close together.”

Marissa Mayer (1975) American business executive and engineer, former ceo of Yahoo!

Source: as quoted in: Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom), 9781455559015, Fisher, Adam, 10 July 2018 https://books.google.com/books?id=pwo5DwAAQBAJ&q=marissa#v=snippet&q=marissa&f=false,

Cars

“I always say that not all judges are corrupt there are some of them who labour night and day to give up their best and to make sure that judgments are based on evidence received and the applicable laws.”

Folake Solanke (1932) Nigerian lawyer

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6lqx-jLCac Folake Solanke speaks on the Corruption of Judges in Nigeria.

Night

“We must have an easy relationship between the lawyers and the law enforcement agencies.”

Folake Solanke (1932) Nigerian lawyer

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6lqx-jLCac Folake Solanke in an interview with Channels.

“I want to be a lawyer. I want to go to law school.
Towards the end of [the] trial I’m like, ‘I want to go against corrupt piece of shit prosecutors like Thomas Binger and put them in their place and make sure they never practice law again.”

Kyle Rittenhouse (2003) former suspect in the killing of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin

Source: 7 December 2021 video interview https://rumble.com/vqd1hv-kyle-rittenhouse-reveals-he-plans-to-become-a-lawyer.html with Elijah Schaffer and Sydney Watson of Blaze TV reported by Gino Spocchi of The Independent https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/kyle-rittenhouse-blasts-piece-trial-183634529.html

School

“If they want to engage in activism or whatever, it’s up to them. If they aren’t afraid of the laws, it’s up to them, and if someone finds a gun and shoot them, or throws grenades at them, well, they have to live with that. If they aren’t afraid, it’s up to them.”

Prayut Chan-o-cha (1954) Thai military officer, junta chief, and politician

Prayuth Can't Guarantee Safety of Academics Who Criticize Him (25 November 2015)
Source: [Prayuth Can't Guarantee Safety of Academics Who Criticize Him, http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1448441773, 1 December 2015, Khaosod English, 25 November 2015]

“This law will be strictly enforced to prevent the type of nuisance and violence that happened in the past...It's not possible to have it all—happiness, equality, democracy—without giving us the tools.”

Prayut Chan-o-cha (1954) Thai military officer, junta chief, and politician

Law curbing public assembly takes effect in Thailand (13 August 2015)
Source: [Law curbing public assembly takes effect in Thailand, https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/law-curbing-public-assembly-takes-effect-in-thailand/, 14 August 2015, The Seattle Times, Associated Press, 13 August 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20201128115005/https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/law-curbing-public-assembly-takes-effect-in-thailand/, 28 November 2020, live]

Democracy , Happiness , Past

“Better a thrifty son-in-law and poor, than a glutton who is rich.”

Mateo Alemán book Guzmán de Alfarache

Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. X.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)

“If I am law abiding and honour all the laws of a country, I am integrated into society. If I am serving the nation with all my potential and capability, that is integration.”

Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950) spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Others
Source: Loving country you live in part of Muslim faith, says Ahmadi leader, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/06/loving-country-you-live-in-part-of-muslim-faith-says-ahmadi-leader,

Country

“First law of gossip—there’s no point knowing something if somebody else doesn’t know you know it.”

Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 11, “Those Foolish Things” (p. 239)

“I’m an old-fashioned copper–I don’t believe in breaking the laws of thermodynamics.”

Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 7, “Almost Like Being in Love” (p. 141)

Fashion

“The police can live with looking corrupt, bullying, or tyrannical, but looking stupid is intolerable. It has a tendency to undermine public faith in the forces of Law and is deleterious to public order.”

Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 4, “One-Tenth of My Ashes” (p. 64)

Stupidity , Faith

“I can say that canonical recognition by the Holy See is an essential condition for a Catholic organization to be in full ecclesiastical communion, conforming to the law. There is no canonical recognition, we are working on it, but canonical recognition is not something notarial, it is essential!”

Guido Pozzo (1951) Italian Roman Catholic archbishop

Source: Archbishop Pozzo: SSPX Continuing Dialogue With Holy See https://www.ncregister.com/blog/archbishop-pozzo-sspx-continuing-dialogue-with-holy-see (July 2016)

“We have a legislative branch that creates the law and the executive carries it out. When it works in that fashion, America works.”

Jeff Landry (1970) American politician, attorney and businessman

Source: Exclusive–Louisiana AG Jeff Landry: ‘The Democratic Party Would Like to Abolish the Constitution’ https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/04/05/exclusive-louisiana-ag-jeff-landry-the-democratic-party-would-like-to-abolish-the-constitution/ (5 April 2018)

Fashion

“We are now (December 2021) working hard to draft a new law that will provide a fair and sustainable solution to the payroll system in the public sector.”

Albin Kurti (1975) Prime Minister of Kosovo

Source: Albin Kurti (2021) cited in " Kosovo approves 2022 budget amid parliamentary disquiet https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/kosovo-approves-2022-budget-amid-parliamentary-disquiet/" on EURACTIV, 20 December 2021.

“I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2021, January 2021
Source: 12:13pm tweet https://archive.is/IvpaU on 6 January 2021

Peace , Women , Men

“Exactly one year ago martial law was introduced. The year that has passed was a great test. We have passed it. It has been passed by the party, by the people's authority and all the citizens. But there is the only winner: the Polish nation. This is the shortest-put truth about the past year.”

Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–2014) Polish military officer and politician

Source: Speech on 1982

People , Truth , Past

“The introduction of martial law was the most dramatic decision I had ever taken. And life had treated me harshly. I experienced my country's tragedy in 1939.”

Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–2014) Polish military officer and politician

Source: Speech at Kansas State University (11 March 1996)

Country , Decision , Life

“Businesses and financial sponsors associated with supporters of Taiwan independence will be penalized according to law.”

Zhu Fenglian (1977)

Source: "China Targets Corporate Backers of Taiwan’s Ruling Party" in Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-22/china-sets-sights-on-corporate-backers-of-taiwan-s-independence (22 November 2021)

Business , Support

“We find among the Indians the vestiges of the most remote antiquity .... We know that all peoples came there to draw the elements of their knowledge ... India, in her splendor, gave religions and laws to all the other peoples; Egypt and Greece owed to her both their fables and their wisdom.”

Pierre Sonnerat (1748–1814) French botanist (1748-1814)

Pierre Sonnerat: Voyage aux Indes orientales et a la Chine, Paris, 1782. Quoted in A Look at India From the Views of Other Scholars, by Stephen Knapp https://www.stephen-knapp.com/a_look_at_india_from_the_views_of_other_scholars.htm
Source: quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Tribute_to_Hinduism.html?id=G3AMAQAAMAAJ

Drawing , People , Religion , Knowledge

“If you have a country with no rule of law, your business (invested in that country) is always like in the casino.”

Matas Maldeikis (1980) Lithuanian statesman

Source: Matas Maldeikis (2021) cited in: " Despite Beijing's ire, Baltic lawmakers bet on Taiwan https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202112050009" in Focus Taiwan, 5 December 2021.

Country , Business

“Our people humanized the violent, inhumane slave plantation society that the British colonialists had established, (but) we are still faced with the insidious nature of a culture that is intended to dehumanize black people wherever black or blackness is found, and our parliaments therefore, while we shall be in the vanguard of removing all laws of discrimination, it is the mental emancipation that shall forever always matter.”

Mia Mottley (1965) prime minister of Barbados

Mia Mottley (2021) cited in: " Mia Mottley: Barbados’ first female leader on a mission to transform island https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/03/mia-mottley-barbados-first-female-leader-mission-to-transform-island" in The Guardian, 3 December 2021.

People , Nature

“We are approaching a solemn anniversary this week
It is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demonstrate incredible courage, incredible bravery, risk their lives to defend the men and women who serve in this Capitol.”

Ted Cruz (1970) American politician

5 January 2022 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ted-cruz-pathetic-tucker-carlson-jan-6-apology-1280783/

Courage , Women , Men

“[I]mpeachment does not require proof of a crime... The argument that only criminal offenses are impeachable is deeply and profoundly wrong. It misunderstands the Constitution, U.S. history, and the nature of criminal law in important ways.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

To End a Presidency (2018)

History , Nature , Way

“"[C]onstitutional silence"... pervades all of constitutional law.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Silence

“The question whether individuals may insist on being heard by rulemakers, for whom they already (directly or indirectly) voted, has bedeviled administrative law since the turn of the century.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Constitutional Choices (1985), The Nature of the Enterprise, The Futile Search for Legitimacy

Question

“That all lawful power derives from the people and must be held in check to preserve their freedom is the oldest and central tenet of American constitutionalism. ...[I]t was believed that personal freedom could be secured more effectively by decentralization than by express command.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Source: American Constitutional Law (1978), Approaches to Constituitonal Analysis

Freedom , Personality , People

“The truth is, distributing intimate photos with the intent to publish them is a crime, and the perpetrator should be punished to the full extent of the law. I have notified Capitol Police, who are investigating it, and therefore will have no further comment on the matter.”

Katie Hill (politician) (1987) former U.S. Representative from California

Source: "Rep. Katie Hill threatens legal action after another conservative outlet publishes her nude photo" https://www.salon.com/2019/10/25/rep-katie-hill-threatens-legal-action-after-another-conservative-outlet-publishes-her-nude-photo/, Salon (October 25, 2019)

Photo , Truth

“In a government which is emphatically stiled a government of laws, the least possible range ought to be left for the discretion of the judge.”

William Cranch (1769–1855) United States federal judge (1769-1855)

Source: Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States (1804) https://books.google.com/books?id=Wxm9qWvls8YC&pg=PR3

“Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because,
Unto my seeming, there doth lurk
A lawlessness about her laws,
More mood than purpose in her work.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: "Nature and the Book", stanza XV; p. 67, At the Gate of the Convent (1885)

Drawing , Nature , Mood

“Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law,
Placing her eggs in whatso nest she will.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: Savonarola (1881), Lorenzo de' Medici in Act I, sc. i; p. 14.

Nature

“The spirit of our age is Democracy. All for the people, and all by the people. Nothing about the people without the people… My nation will rise, called to resurrection by the eternal principles of the law of nature and of nature’s God. It will not lie in the grave longer than the holy number three, and will require your magnanimity by becoming the corner-stone of national independence on the European Continent.”

Lajos Kossuth (1802–1894) Hungarian politician

Source: In front of Ohio's legislators on 7 february, 1852.

Democracy , God , People , Lie

“Changin' laws an' legislatures ain't, as fur as I can see,
Goin' to make this world much better, unless somehow we can
Find a way to make a better an' a finer sort o' man.
The trouble ain't with statutes or with systems—not at all;
It's with humans jus' like we [are] an' their petty ways an' small.
We could stop our writin' law-books an' our regulatin' rules
If a better sort of manhood was the product of our schools.
For the things that we air needin' isn't writin' from a pen
Or bigger guns to shoot with, but a bigger type of men.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: All That Matters (1922), p.57 - The Need, from stanzas 1 (part) and 2.

Men , Books , World , School

“Civilization.…
Like everything else, it has a price. The down payment is freedom. For the privilege of living together, men surrender the right to do as they please; they make laws and restrict themselves within them.
When civilization is conferred from outside, the price is even steeper: someone else makes the laws.”

Jack Williamson book Star Bridge

Source: Star Bridge (1955), “The History,” prelude to Chapter 3, “The Narrow Bridge” (p. 37)

Freedom , Men

“I deny that villany is ever necessary. It is impossible that it should ever be necessary for any reasonable creature to violate all the laws of justice, mercy, and truth. No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity. It can never be necessary for a rational being to sink himself below a brute. A man can be under no necessity of degrading himself into a wolf. The absurdity of the supposition is so glaring, that one would wonder any one can help seeing it.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

Source: 1770s, Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774)

Wolf , Truth , Justice , Help

“My opinion is that the best law is an education of quality, that begins in the family, grows at school and finds in society a stimulus for the formation of people. We are greatly lacking in civic friendship, we look at one another as mad people and not as brethren or as people who share the same ideal, the same purpose.”

Ricardo Ezzati (1942) archbishop and cardinal

Source: Chile – Cardinal Ezzati: Reparation Eucharist https://www.infoans.org/en/sections/news/item/1167-chile-cardinal-ezzati-reparation-eucharist-at-gratitud-nacionain-this-l (13 June 2016)

Friendship , People , Education , Madness

“Anytime you create a cause of action there, you could call anybody that has the right to go to court a bounty hunter, because they're going in there for damages, which means they're going in to get some type of payment. So you could say that about any cause of action created by any legislature, whether it was federal or state, it could be viewed that way, if you don’t like the actual law.”

Ken Paxton (1962) American politician

Source: Attorney General Ken Paxton on Texas Heartbeat Act: We Are Hopeful https://www.ncregister.com/interview/attorney-general-ken-paxton-on-texas-heartbeat-act-we-are-hopeful (6 November 2021)

Way

“I have never changed my stance nor my story. I have always maintained my innocence. Thank you to all my fans, supporters and friends who stood by me through this ordeal. Special thanks to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for upholding the rules of law.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Source: In 2021 on his acquittal concerning sexual assault allegations that involved him. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/bill-cosby-prison-release-1234976311/

Change , Support

“The Catholic Church is not the religious function of a given political society. It is a communion of an order quite different from what national belonging or the framework of the law can provide, a communion open to all.”

Éric de Moulins-Beaufort (1962) French archbishop

Source: Catholic archbishop: ‘The Church in France is jostled from many sides’ https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/catholic-archbishop-ric-de-moulins-beaufort-the-church-in-france-is-jostled-from-many-sides-56097 (December 19, 2020)

“Oh, I assure you—I’m only a little outlaw. Don’t fear me, friend. I never broke any big laws. I just forget and do what I want sometimes, and discover it wasn’t what someone else wanted me to do.”

Samuel R. Delany book They Fly at Çiron

Source: They Fly at Çiron (1993), Chapter 4 (p. 96)

Forgetting , Fear

“Casual murder, casual suicide, casual crime. Why not? If alternate universes are a reality, then cause and effect are an illusion. The law of averages is a fraud. You can do anything, and one of you will, or did.”

Larry Niven book All the Myriad Ways

All the Myriad Ways (p. 79)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

Universe , Fraud , Reality , Suicide

“Honor in safety, survival under threat. Necessity is the only law.”

N. K. Jemisin book The Stone Sky

Source: The Stone Sky (2017), Chapter 9 “the desert, briefly, and you” (p. 231)

“The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.”

Russell Kirk (1918–1994) American political theorist and writer

The Roots of American Order (1974)

Nature

“The paths may be different but the laws remain universal.”

- Goa

Universe

“Before joining NATO, each country had to establish civilian control of its army. Before joining the European Union, each adopted laws on trade, judiciary, human rights. As a result, they became democracies. This was “democracy promotion” working as it never has before or since.”

Anne Applebaum (1964) journalist

"The myth of Russian humiliation" Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-nato-pays-a-heavy-price-for-giving-russia-too-much-credita-true-achievement-under-threat/2014/10/17/5b3a6f2a-5617-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html (October 17, 2014)

Democracy , Country

“America must offer meaningful opportunities for redemption and rehabilitation to empower those who have been incarcerated to become productive, law-abiding, members of society, and reduce crime and make our communities safer.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Expands Second Chance Opportunities for Formerly Incarcerated Persons https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/26/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-expands-second-chance-opportunities-for-formerly-incarcerated-persons/
2022, April 2022

Communication

“It is our moral and constitutional obligation that the life of every human being, born and unborn, is respected and protected under the law.”

Paul Gosar (1958) American politician and dentist

Source: REP. PAUL GOSAR ISSUES STATEMENT ON ROE V. WADE ANNIVERSARY https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2241 (Washington, DC, January 22, 2013)

Life

“We should also have national red-flag laws so that a parent, a teacher, a counselor can flag for a court that a child, a student, a patient is exhibiting violent tendencies, threatening classmates, or experiencing suicidal thoughts that makes them a danger to themselves or to others.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, June 2022, Remarks on Gun Violence in America

Teachers , Parent , Suicide

“Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law.”

Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 85

Understanding

“As to any other laws that slave-holders may make among themselves, as respecting slaves, they can be of no better kind, nor give them any better character, than what is implied in the common report—that there may be some honesty among thieves.”

Ottobah Cugoano (1757–1791) African abolitionist in England

Source: Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), p. 4

“The contact of a believer with a nonbeliever must take the form of a dialogue. The all-powerful action of pure sanctity alone is dispensed from it, since it is not bound by any law. But the dialogue will never get underway if it is not first a dialogue with myself.”

Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) Jesuit theologian and cardinal

Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. III. "Witness", p. 36

“As a liberal democracy, we’re also committed to promoting universal values like human rights, gender equality and the rule of law. We’ve always believed in these values, it’s what makes us who we are.”

Scott Morrison (1968) 30th Prime Minister of Australia

" Our Common Hope, UN General Assembly National Statement" https://www.pm.gov.au/media/our-common-hope-un-general-assembly-national-statement (26 September 2020)

Democracy , Universe

“Looking over the past two decades, we see close ties between gender-related attitudes and political ideology. A law seems to exist that sexism and heterosexism almost always travel alongside reactionary types of nationalism.”

Elizabeth Martinez (1925) American community organizer, activist, author, and educator

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (2017)

Travel , Past

“We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book The Years of Rice and Salt

Book 3: "Ocean Continents"
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

Universe

“You must be very scrupulous not to gather power in to the center just because you can do it. Power corrupts, that’s the basic law of politics. Maybe the only law.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (p. 156)

“Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars

Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 10, “Phase Change” (p. 579)

People , Nature

“It was a mistake to speak one’s mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. Best to strip all statements of real content, this was a basic law of diplomacy.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 418)

Time

“Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 394)

Money

“Defy the law! Write the heartbroken poetry of the World!”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed

World

“The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.”

Ernst Jünger book Eumeswil

Eumeswil (1977)

Nature , Change

“Justice is not fulfilled so long as woman is unequal before the law. We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul. You tried that in the case of the negro.”

Frances Harper (1825–1911) American writer

"We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866)

Soul , Justice

“No government has yet been able to repeal natural laws, though they keep trying.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 35)

Nature

“Yahweh is Lord of all, even of economics. There is no hint here of a sacred law of supply and demand that operates independently of biblical ethics and the Lordship of Yahweh. The people of God should submit to God, and God demands economic justice among his people.”

Ron Sider (1939–2022) Canadian theologian

Source: Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity (2015), p. 75

God , People , Justice

“The entire military is loyal to the nation, loyal to the constitution and executes orders in accordance with the law. This must not be questioned.”

Fang Mao-hung (1963)

Source: Fang Mao-hung (2021) cited in " ‘Begonia’ map on military insignia must go: legislator http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201810300006.aspx" on Taipei Times, 14 December 2021.

Question

“The seeking of wealth for a valid reasons is exhorted and is full of significance. Lawful wealth too plays its part in the acquisition of peace of mind, which is an end desired by the religion.”

Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863–1943) Indian Muslim scholar

Ashraf Ali Thānwī, Hayātul Muslimeen , p.44

Peace , Religion , Wealth , Parting