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“The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.”
Chuck Palahniuk Quotes |
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“it's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to -- to prove you're client's guilt.”
Anderson Cooper Quotes |
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“…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…”
Alfred Korzybski Quotes |
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“It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.”
Alfred Korzybski Quotes |
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“Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.”
Alfred Korzybski Quotes |
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“Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.”
Alfred Korzybski Quotes |
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“We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments.”
Alfred Korzybski Quotes |
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“…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.”
Alfred Korzybski Quotes |
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“In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.”
Alfred Korzybski Quotes |
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“If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.”
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“Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.
[Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Magna Charta--Privilege of Barons of Parliament
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“Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not
tremble.
[It., Ove son leggi,
Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes Source: Virginia (II, 1)
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“Law is king of all.”
Henry Alford Quotes Source: School of the Heart (lesson 6)
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“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.”
Anacharsis Quotes Source: to Solon when writing his laws
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“Law is a bottomless pit.”
John Arbuthnot Quotes Source: title of a pamphlet (about 1700)
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“One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Apothegms (no. 181)
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“All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays on Empire
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“Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it
be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians,
which altereth not.”
Bible Quotes Source: Daniel (ch. VI, v. 8)
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“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Bible Quotes Source: Hebrews (ch. XII, v. 1-2)
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“But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners,
for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers, for manslayers.”
Bible Quotes Source: I Timothy (ch. I, v. 8-9)
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“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
Bible Quotes Source: Isaiah (ch. VIII, v. 20)
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“They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render
therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God
the things that are God's.”
Bible Quotes Source: Matthew (ch. XXII, v. 21)
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“He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XI, v. 15)
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“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.”
Louis D. Brandeis Quotes Source: part of his dissent in the case "Olmstead v. United States", 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928)
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“There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his
having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument,
"What end or object could the party have had in the act with
which he is accused."”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Impeachment of Warren Hastings
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