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In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember 3 the ladies, and be more generous and favourable 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.
A government of laws, and not of men.
There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and to elect lawmakers.
A miracle is not the breaking of the laws of the fallen world.It is the re-establishment of the laws of the kingdom.
We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done. And we have done those things which we ought not to have done. And there is no health in us.
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained bya few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
Silent enim leges inter arma. For laws are silent in time of war. 218
All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.
'Twonations; betweenwhomthere isnointercourseand no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed bya different breeding, are fed by a different 276 food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.' 'You speak of'said Egremont, hesitatingly.'THE RICH ANDTHE POOR.'
U.S.A. is the slice of a continent.U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in bya Western Union boy on a black-board, a publiclibrary full of old newspapers and dogeared historybooks with protests scrawled in the margins in pencil.U.S.A. is the world's greatest rivervalley fringed with mountains and hills.U.S.A. is a set of bigmouthed officials with too many bankaccounts.U.S.A. is a lot of men buried in their uniforms in Arlington Cemetery.U.S.A. is the letters at theend of anaddresswhenyouareaway from home.But mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
He stood at bold defiance with his prince; Held up the buckler of the people's cause Against the crown, and skulked behind the laws.
T'abhor the makers, and their laws approve, Is to hate traitors and the treason love.
If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.
La majestueuse e galite des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. The majestic equality of laws forbids the rich as well as the poor tosleep under bridges, to beg inthestreets and to steal bread.
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that's all theyare. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
What we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith.Themore weknowofthelaws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to beand the non-necessity of it.
Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions The essence of music is revelation.
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.
In this country, my Lordsthe individual subjecthas nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me; And if my ways are not as theirs Let them mind their own affairs.
Il n'y a ni re' gles ni mode' les; ou pluto" t il n'y a d'autres re' gles que les lois ge ne rales de la nature qui planent sur l'art tout entier, et les lois spe ciales qui, pour chaque composition, re sultent des conditions d'existence propres a' chaque sujet. There are no rules or models; that is, there are no rules except general laws of nature which hover over art and special laws which apply to specific subjects. 420
If civil authorities legislate for or allow anything that is contrary to that order and therefore contrary to the will of God, neither the laws made or the authorizations granted can be binding on the consciences of the citizens, since God has more right to be obeyed than man.
A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded Laws, A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles, And all the maladies of stinking states.
The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to please, must please to live.
There's reason good, that you good laws should make: Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.
To me the'female principle' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power Lehmann-Haupt structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
It ismediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-gunsintherealmoffreesong, saying thusfar shall you go and no further.
Might first made kings, and laws were then most sure Whenthey were writ in blood.
Unlike the Laws of Production, those of Distribution are partly of human institution, since the manner in which wealth is distributed in any given society, depends on the statutes or usages therein obtaining.
Happily, there is nothing in the laws of value which remains for the present or any future writer to clear up; the theory of the subject is complete.
If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.
La liberte est le droit de faire tout ce que les lois permettent. Freedom is the right to do anything the laws permit.
Les lois inutiles affaiblissent les lois ne cessaires. Useless laws weaken the necessary ones.
Laws were made to be broken.
Nothing is accidental in the universethis is one of my Laws of Physicsexceptthe entire universeitself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
Technology breaks the laws and makes the laws.
Iguess I'mjust anoldmad scientist at bottom.Givemean underground laboratory, half a dozen atomsmashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
Where laws end, tyranny begins.
IwasbornaTory, amaTory, and shall dieaTory.Inever yet heard that it was any part of the faith of aTory to take the institutions and liberties, the laws and customs that his country has evolved over the centuries, and mergethem with those of eight other nations into a new-made artificial stateand what is more, to do so without the willing approbation and consent of the nation.
En leur re' gle n'e tait que cette clause:. In their laws there was but this one clause:.
All my originality consistsin giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.
Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death.
He is a barbarian, and thinksthat the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
The captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditch-water; and the crew isgambling in the forecastle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favour of England because you were born in it?
London, hast thou accused me Of breach of laws, the root of strife? Within whose breast did boil to see, So fervent hot, thy dissolute life, That even the hate of sins that grow Within thy wicked walls so rife, For to break forth did convert so That terror could it not repress.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
It little profits that an idle king By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an age' d wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know onlya few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, byany confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but reallyconcurring, laws, which Thoreau we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.
I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, Ayear whose days are long.
Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever, Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.
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