W Quotes
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“When the law is a joke. People of that country, their government and president are seen as clowns.”
“When the law makers don't respect the law.
The law becomes a joke. Those who have authority lose power. The justice system gets mocked.”
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.”
“When the law regulates behavior it plays an indirect part in molding public sentiment. The enforcement of the law is itself a form of peaceful persuasion. But the law needs help. The courts can order desegregation of the public schools. But what can be done to mitigate the fears, to disperse the hatred, violence, and irrationality gathered around school integration, to take the initiative out of the hands of racial demagogues, to release respect for the law? In the end, for laws to be obeyed, men must believe they are right.
Here nonviolence comes in as the ultimate form of persuasion. It is the method which seeks to implement the just law by appealing to the conscience of the great decent majority who through blindness, fear, pride, or irrationality have allowed their consciences to sleep.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.”
Source: Living Faith
“When the leaden haze of our lives starts cracking and tearing, and the forlornness and torpor in our minds are smoldering into ashes, we can softly hear the sounds of a new dawn and learn to pick up the magic of the words that make us understood among our neighbors.( "Life was a misunderstanding")”
“When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“When the leader is honest and doesn’t abusing his power, then the citizens will be capable to do their businesses with full honesty too.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.”
“When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.”
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris
“When the leaders speak of peace
The common folk know
That war is coming
When the leaders curse war
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread
I go to the market where lies are bought
Hopefully
I take up my place among the sellers.”
“When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.”
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?”
Source: Cat’s Eye
“When the leaves began to fall, all the visitors were gone, and the whistle from the train passing through Orange gave a long, lonesome, shrill sound as it rolled through without stopping to let off any passengers.”
Source: The Taste of Country Cooking
“When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman’s hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.”
“When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.”
Source: When the Leaves Stop Falling
“When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown”
“When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.”
Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
“When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.”
“When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to induce someone else to watch an animal fight but it’s not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting, there’s something wrong with the priorities of people that think like that.”
“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.”
“When the legs go, the heart soon follows”
“When the lenses in the eyes of a leader captures tomorrow, they don't print the passport size of it. They make enlargements.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“When the letters came, offering me places at university, that was when it all blew up - for ever.”
Source: Motherwell: A Girlhood
“When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.”
“When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.”
“When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!”
“When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.”
“When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.”
“When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!”
“When the light has gone out in your soul and there is nothing left to lose...." Under a Dark Cloud by Mary Crowley”
“When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.”
“When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.”
“When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.”
“When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.”
“When the light on that long night became the dawn...”
Source: Shantaram
“When the light powerfully shines upon us, the darkness cannot dare to touch us!”
“When the light reached its zenith, the group of 1,000 Travelers down below could no longer be seen. Suddenly, the intense light ceased to be, returning the lighting of the stadium to a normal level. Dani felt a moment of disorientation, but she soon recovered and looked down at an empty stadium.”
Source: Time Chain
“When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.”
“When the light shines on you, you are filled up with the light! And then what happens? Then you will start loading your light on others!”
“When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?”
“When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.”
“When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both”
Source: This Side of Paradise: American Literature
“When the lights are dim and the cigarettes are lit, the dames look like ladies and the mugs look like gentlemen and nobody sees the blood in your shoes at The Bow Tie.”
Source: Filthy Sugar
“When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.”
“When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.”