I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
~ Stephen Colbert
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
~ Nikola Tesla
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
~ Samuel Adams
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
~ John Paul Jones
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
~ Samuel Butler
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
~ Edmund Burke
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
~ Ethan Allen
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
~ Samuel Johnson
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
~ Solomon Short
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
~ Francis Bacon
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
~ Archilochus
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
~ Albert Camus
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
~ Herbert Read
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
~ Samuel Daniel
The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
~ Alan Dershowitz
We don't classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don't use the example of one bad teacher in our children's school to draw a negative conclusion of the entire teaching profession. We should apply that same rational standard when it comes to how we view law enforcement.
~ Thom Tillis
I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.
~ Ben Stein
I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.
~ Chris Pavone
Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.
~ Zhang Zhidong
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
~ Dag Hammarskjöld
Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.
~ Ivica Dacic
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
~ John Wesley
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
~ Yasser Arafat
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
~ E. W. Howe
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
~ Burke Marshall
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
~ Seth Lloyd
The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
~ Ellen G. White
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
~ Eric Holder
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
~ Anatole France
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
~ Susan B. Anthony
