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Law Quotes - Page 165

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Masquerade: Number 2 in series”, p.190, Hachette UK

Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.

Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.168, Penguin

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

"Philosophy in the Bedroom". Book by Marquis de Sade. Chapter: "Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans", 1795.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2441, GENERAL PRESS

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1192, Library of America

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.230, Courier Corporation

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusc. Quæst, I, 13, 30, p. 569-70, 1922.

I'm not against gay people... I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. What I'm critical off are actions that violate the word of God.

Sex, Gay, Law
"Manny Pacquiao Banned From Hollywood Mall Over Gay Marriage Comments" by Myles Collier, www.christianpost.com. May 16, 2012.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”