Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Kennedy

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

Niger Innis

After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.

To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

Oprah Winfrey

Until we rise up in the streets and change the laws in this country, this will continue to happen and every time it will be more heinous than the next.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Daniel Alarcon

Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.

We're seeing more and more informed consent laws passed that are politically motivated, with items in there trying to dissuade women from having abortions, rather than being politically neutral and giving women true risks and benefits.

Bill Nye

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Juvenal

There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.

John Updike

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

Lawrence M. Krauss

No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Jim Fowler

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

the regular rules - the civil rights laws of the United States - apply in Hawaii.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

We're putting together possibly a preliminary injunction to ask the judge to enjoin the effective date of the law. And we're studying that right now. I've had four inquiries from other states about joining this suit or filing a separate lawsuit in coordinating efforts.

With the paper-based system you can see the ballots being marked, you can see them going into a ballot box, if you have good laws you can go watch them count the ballots, and with electronic voting all of that stuff is hidden inside the machines.

Wait until these laws are abused or misused and then the people of Australia will turn on them for bringing in, in peace-time, laws that allow Australians to be locked up without charge.

Ultimately we looked at what charges were available; we didn't have anything to charge them with. We don't like the fact that nothing comes out of this absolutely stupid behavior, but we have the laws we have.

Ultimately, it's important to be sure that no laws were broken and no crimes were committed.

Until Canada ends its unfair practices, the U.S. lumber industry will never stop insisting that action be taken under U.S. trade laws to fully offset the subsidies and dumping.

What the state of California expects to recover as a result of our lawsuits goes well above and beyond the resolution that was reached today.

What these open government laws do is break down that wall of government secrecy so that everybody knows what's going on. A democracy can only function if we have information. You can only have oversight of government if you have information.

When fair-minded Floridians come to understand just how harmful this initiative is to so many Florida families, they will reject this amendment. Laws should not make it harder to take care of the people you love.

David Dinkins

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

Matthew Arnold

(Poetry) a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty

Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules.

Anna Lindh

On NTV, we have called for pluralist laws of ownership. We fear this (latest) development will decrease pluralism for owners.

I wish they would have left more in the contingency reserve, because they have six lawsuits pending against themselves.

If we don't enforce laws of the historic district and allow things to slide, then it's unfair to homeowners that live in the area and do obey the rules. We don't have anything to defend. We are just doing our job.

If we discover such laws are not in place, or are inadequate, or are not effectively enforced, we will take appropriate action.

Adolf Eichmann

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

The people I've talked to say the situation in the coal camps is getting worse. Blasts are shaking their houses, and dust and mud covers the roads and everything. There is nothing preventative about the new laws they passed. It was just an after-the-fact thing. It does nothing to protect the people.