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Law Quotes - Page 199

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

Ernest Henry Starling (1965). “Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart”

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

Erle Stanley Gardner (1983). “Pay Dirt: And Other Whispering Sands Stories of Gold Fever and the Western Desert”, William Morrow & Company

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough”, p.556

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.20, Penguin

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.6, CCEL

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.51

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.5, A&C Black

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.176, Oxford University Press on Demand

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.479, Transaction Publishers

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.193, Simon and Schuster