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Lawful Quotes (page 80)

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. Ursula K. Le Guin
...This was not illegal, (nothing was illegal since there were no longer laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death... George Orwell
This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed. Groucho Marx
Anthony Trollope quote: "Did you ever know a poor man made better by law or a lawyer!'..."
Did you ever know a poor man made better by law or a lawyer!' said Bunce bitterly. Anthony Trollope
But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the civil law, and there must be at least someone to have pity on him. The church holds aloof, above all, because its judgment alone contains the truth... Fyodor Dostoevsky
When they came to harvest my corpse(open your mouth, close your eyes)cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twicefor the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at themin a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to lookout at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill willstaring then in the foreheadand turn tail. Before, I was not a... Margaret Atwood
Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it. Paul Brunton
John Grisham quote: "She was pondering the option of law school, the great American..."
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads. John Grisham
Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. It wishes for light upon that awful matter, it asks men who know no more law than I know, but who can feel the thing that I felt in that jury box. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects... Gilbert K. Chesterton
Victor Hugo quote: "The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it..."
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it. Victor Hugo
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. William James
Erica Jong quote: "Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder..."
Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter. Erica Jong
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants. Clarence Darrow
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations. Charles Spurgeon
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law. H. P. Lovecraft

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