"We must admit thatlaw must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions, but with absolute necessity."

Law, Justice, Logic, Morality

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"We must admit thatlaw must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions, but with absolute necessity."

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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Law, Risk, Hope, Struggle

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Law, Laws, Universe, Unworthy

"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Law, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Law, Order, Property, World

"The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

Law, Economics, Money, Policy

"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Law, War, Justice, Commanders

"It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights."

Steven Magee, British Author

Law, Corruption, Justice, Expectation

"Petty laws breed great crimes."

Ouida, English Novelist

Law, Laws

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"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."

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"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."

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"The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion."

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"Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing."

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"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."

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"In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics."

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"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."

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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."

"It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights."

"Petty laws breed great crimes."

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"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."

"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."

"The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion."

"Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing."

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."

"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."

"In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics."

"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."