“Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsSometimesLawRealizingGriefWonderCryPossibilityBrotherRegretTypePersonalityConcernedWake UpShameProfoundBoringDeeperUniquenessIn-lawsFittingSaddestNormalityHeartyBrother In Law Book:Life After God Source: Life After God
“No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.” RealStoriesLawOrderNaturalSpaceBehindsEmotionalConcernedCosmicViolationDefianceEvasionNatural Order Book:Selected Letters 1934-1937 Source: Selected Letters 1934-1937
“In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.” PeopleThinkingShouldHas BeensLawLinesMistakeSpeechConcernedAbuseIslamSentencesCommitProphetIslamicFreedom Of SpeechIrresponsibleImmoralitySame MistakesIrresponsibilityDeterrentRushdieIslamic Law Author:Cat Stevens
“It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make our laws. Most presidents, governors, commissioners, along with their advisers and brain-trusters are lawyers; they administer our laws. All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power -- in the lawyers.” GovernmentRunningLawPresidentBrainJudgingCivilizationConcernedLawyerSeparationConcentrationGovernorsPrivate LifeLegislatorsAdviserSeparation Of PowersCommissioners Author:Fred Rodell
“The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.” WayHardReasonHelpingLawLinesToo MuchGroupsConcernedRoundsLawyerSupposed To BeWheelsDevicesServingCivilizedFiringFrictionSquadGuillotine Author:Fred Rodell
“We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such as the new law requiring NGOs to register as "foreign agents", the law banning homosexual "propaganda", problems with the rule of law and arbitrary judicial processes, and court rulings against the opposition.” HumansProblemLawProcessSituationRightsExampleConcernedRegardCourtHuman RightsRussiaAgentsPropagandaOppositionHomosexualRulingArbitraryRule Of LawRegisterJudicial Author:Cecilia Malmstrom
“Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” PeopleWould BeLawMotivationGivenNationsDifficultEnemyIssuesProtectConcernedProgramRelatedPrivacyScopeNsa Author:Mitch McConnell
“That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.” ShouldLooksMeanPersonsStatesCharacterLawYoungEducationMoralVirtueClearSubjectsMankindTaughtIntellectualConcernedAffairEducatedDeniedDisagreementPublic EducationMoral Virtues Book:Pocket Aristotle Source: Pocket Aristotle
“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.” ShouldWritingMayHas BeensSometimesActionLawCertainJusticeCasesImpossibleWrittenChangedOughtConcernedAll ThingsUniversal Book:The Essential Aristotle Source: The Essential Aristotle