Quotes about in-laws page 10
“Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.”
Sheryl WuDunn book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Source: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Insofern sich die Sätze der Mathematik auf die Wirklichkeit beziehen, sind sie nicht sicher, und insofern sie sicher sind, beziehen sie sich nicht auf die Wirklichkeit. http://books.google.com/books?id=QF0ON71WuxEC&q=%22Insofern+sich+die+S%C3%A4tze+der+Mathematik+auf+die%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage<br><br>Geometrie and Erfahrung (1921) pp. 3-4 link.springer.com http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-49903-6_1#page-1 as cited by Karl Popper, The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge (2014) Tr. Andreas Pickel, Ed. Troels Eggers Hansen.<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Albert Einstein / Quotes / 1920s<br><br>http://books.google.com/books?id=QF0ON71WuxEC&q=%22beziehen+sind+sie+nicht+sicher+und+insofern+sie+sicher+sind+beziehen+sie+sich+nicht+auf+die+Wirklichkeit%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage <br class="br">1920s, Sidelights on Relativity (1922)
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
talk at St. Michael's College, Vermont, around 1990 http://www.chomsky.info/talks/1990----.htm. <br class="br">Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
to George Logan, 1816 http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/049/0600/0642.jpgLetter <br class="br">Posthumous publications, On financial matters <br class="br">Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Love's Philosophy http://www.readprint.com/work-1365/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1819), st. 1
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman
“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.”
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
Dietrich Bonhoeffer book The Cost of Discipleship
Source: Discipleship (1937), The Enemy, the "Extraordinary", p. 147.
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
Susan Andersen (1950) American writer
Source: Burning Up
“Love is the law, love under will.”
Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law
I:57.
Variant: There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
Source: The Book of the Law (1904)
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to papal nuncio Count Dugnani (14 February 1818)
1810s
“You bled on the Speaking stars… I bet there's a law somewhere about that.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Source: City of Bones
“Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
“It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.”
Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) American theologian
Audio lectures, Dominion (n. d.)
Source: The Institutes of Biblical Law, Volume 1 of 3
Context: Now a sovereign, a Lord, is always the source of law. Law making is the pejorative of the Lord or sovereign of a God. In every religious faith, in every religion, in every culture, the God of that system provides the laws. They are of his making. And if you allow any other law to come in you are acknowledging another God. This is why in Europe when the doctrine of the Divine right of kings arose there was a militant hostility on the part of the keys for any aspect of Biblical law. And the war against Biblical law began under the kings of Europe as monarchies began to rise in the late middle ages.
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Source: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter VII: "Instinct", page 244 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=262&itemID=F373&viewtype=image <br class="br">Source: The Origin of Species
“In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
Henry Adams book The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Source: The Education of Henry Adams
“The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece”
Dan Brown book Angels & Demons
Source: Angels & Demons
Delores Phillips (1950–2014) American writer
Source: The Darkest Child
“Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Source: Time Enough for Love
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
" Notebook N http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1838) page 36 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=25&itemID=CUL-DAR126.-&viewtype=text <br class="br">quoted in [Darwin's Religious Odyssey, 2002, William E., Phipps, Trinity Press International, 9781563383847, 32, http://books.google.com/books?id=0TA81BTW3dIC&pg=PA32] <br class="br">also quoted in On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection (1996) edited by Thomas F. Glick and David Kohn, page 81 <br class="br">Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements <br class="br">Source: Notebooks
“There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.”
Alan Paton (1903–1988) South African writer and activist
“Judge — A law student who marks his own examination-papers.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…”
Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
Profiles of the Future (revised edition, 1973)
On Clarke's Laws
Source: Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible
Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer.
--Dante Pontis”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Kiss of the Night
“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”
Doris Lessing book Martha Quest
Martha Quest (1952), Part III, ch. 2
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bites
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Variant: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian
" … and God wept", I believe is the next part of that story.
Chicago '91 (1991)
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" in Profiles of the Future (1962)
Perhaps the adjective "elderly" requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!
"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" in Profiles of the Future (1962; as revised in 1973)
On Clarke's Laws
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
“My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Howard Zinn book A People's History of the United States
Source: A People's History of the United States
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
The reference to Cassius is that of the character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Listen to an mp3 sound file http://www.otr.com/murrow_mccarthy.shtml of parts of this statement. <br class="br">See It Now (1954) <br class="br">Context: No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Good night, and good luck.
William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Source: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
“In times of war, the law falls silent.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
Context: Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. But in Oratory the greatest Art is to hide Art.
“It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" in Profiles of the Future (1962)
On Clarke's Laws
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 132
Variant transcription from "Death of a Genius" in Life Magazine: "I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar."
Context: About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church. As long as I can remember, I have resented mass indoctrination. I do not believe in the fear of life, in the fear of death, in blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.
