Home » Law Law 1 It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. Martin Luther King, Jr Love, Man, Law Add to Collection 2 I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. Martin Luther King, Jr Respect, Community, Law Add to Collection 3 That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. Martin Luther King, Jr Time, Wisdom, Law Add to Collection 4 Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King, Jr Justice, Progress, Law Add to Collection 5 Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. Woodrow Wilson Law, Consent, Opinion Add to Collection 6 Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. William Blake Religion, Law, Stones Add to Collection 7 The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity. Isaac Newton Law, Body, Gravity Add to Collection 8 Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths. Isaac Newton Faith, Men, Law Add to Collection 9 Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Law, World, Action Add to Collection 10 May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant Life, Law, Live Add to Collection 11 Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Immanuel Kant Life, Law, Live Add to Collection 12 So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Law, World, Action Add to Collection 13 In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. Immanuel Kant Ethics, Man, Law Add to Collection 14 Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant Sky, Law, Me Add to Collection 15 The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. Walt Whitman Wise, Man, Law Add to Collection 16 Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. Arthur Schopenhauer Time, Law, Past Add to Collection 17 So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Law, World, Action Add to Collection 18 Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Law, World, Action Add to Collection 19 May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant Life, Law, Live Add to Collection 20 Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant Sky, Law Add to Collection 21 Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Immanuel Kant Life, Law, Live Add to Collection 22 In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. Immanuel Kant Man, Ethics, Law Add to Collection 23 Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain God, Law, Legal Add to Collection 24 A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. Oscar Wilde Art, Writing, Law Add to Collection 1 2 next › last »
