“All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law.” GivingWritingLawPayReturnAmountTaxesBlameRateFillingAccountantsBlame MeTax ReturnsDon't Blame Me Author:David Rubenstein
“People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.” PeopleGivingJobsLawCausesAnimalModernCitizensCreaturesPerceptionStandingDestructionBlameFinalsIndividualityDelightVarietyHolinessReverenceChaptersConservationAbstractionInsistencePsalmsDestruction Of Nature Author:Wendell Berry
“Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.” IfsMenYearsLawPoliticsFiguresBlameCaughtSenatorsRequirementsFunny Things Author:Will Rogers
“It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.” PeopleShouldFeelingsLawIdentityBlameJewHonour Author:Richard Wagner
“With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.” MatterLawOrderUniverseIndividualNationsJusticeAnimalRightsViolenceKingsElementsUniversalAbsolutesBlameAssumingAncientAppearanceStrongestLaws Of NatureUnchangeable Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.” Has BeensWholeLawNamesBearsBlameSchemesCalamity Book:A treatise on political economy Source: A treatise on political economy