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  • All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Nature Quotes , Law Quotes
  • Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Law Quotes , Insanity Quotes
  • In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Law Quotes , Numbers Quotes
  • Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Confucius Quotes , Order Quotes , Law Quotes
  • People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Art Quotes , Law Quotes
  • Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , Law Quotes
  • Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alafair Burke Quotes , Law Quotes , World Quotes