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    Edmund Burke
    “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: reading
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    Tom Robbins
    “Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: freedom, law, morality, rules
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    Cassandra Clare
    “It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: henry-branwell, idiot, infernal-devices, law, nephilim, shadowhunters
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: expectation, law, order, respect
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine
    tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.
    “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: good, hermione-granger, law, ministry-of-magic
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: body, doctrine, ethics, law, morality, principles, religion, soul, steadfastness, temptation
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Any fool can make a rule
    And any fool will mind it.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14
    tags: authority, conformity, fool, foolishness, humor, law, rule, rules
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    Aristotle
    “I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: law, morality, philosophy, secular-ethics, secular-morality
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cult, danger, law, organized-religion, power, religion, sect, separation-of-church-and-state
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    Abigail Adams
    “...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
    ― Abigail Adams
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    “Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny, law
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    Cassandra Clare
    “The Law is hard, but it is the Law.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: cassandra-clare, city-of-glass, law, mortal-instruments
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: law, rules, war
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    Plato
    “Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: law, music, state
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    Christopher Moore
    “Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.”
    ― Christopher Moore
    tags: dicta, law, welcome
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: law
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    John Adams
    “It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.

    But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
    ― John Adams, The Portable John Adams
    tags: common-law, innocence, judicial, justice, law
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  • #21
    Jules Verne
    “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
    ― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    tags: law
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    Banksy
    “My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say 'Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job' all the fucking time.”
    ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
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    Libba Bray
    “War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
    tags: chaos, forever, gorgon, honor, law, war, win
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    George Carlin
    “And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.”
    ― George Carlin, Brain Droppings
    tags: law, teens
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    Jonathan Swift
    “Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: law, simile
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    Tullian Tchividjian
    “Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.”
    ― Tullian Tchividjian
    tags: god-s-love, grace, law, legalism
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    Milton Friedman
    “Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons”
    ― Milton Friedman
    tags: drugs, economics, law, morality
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    Vivekananda
    “All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”
    ― Vivekananda , Letters of Swami Vivekananda, Year 1960
    tags: law, love
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    William Gaddis
    “Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
    ― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own
    tags: justice, law
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    Will Rogers
    “The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. ”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: law, lawyers
    138 likes



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