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“All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.”

Men Law Desire Laughing Broken Contrary Lust Injury

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.”

Law Wonder Ocean Contrary Organisms Laws Of Nature Treasury Naturalist Monstrosity

Author:Edward Forbes

“The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.”

World Mind Action Together Law Results Creativity Positive Draws Optimism Contrary Thinker Positive Thoughts Positively Activate Positive Results Positive Thinker

Book:The Positive Principle Today

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.”

Source: Secret Power

“Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.”

World Law Knowing Despair All Things Contrary Transient

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being.”

Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

“Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.”

Government Happiness Form Law Imagination Liberty Mankind Security Property Contrary Republic Forms Of Government Phantoms Secured Deluded Republicanism

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.”

Knows May Law Certain Order Known Conditions Higher Ordinary Miracle Contrary Superiors Inferiors Laws Of Nature

Book:Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

“But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.”

Ifs Men Law Evil Wealth Common Subjects Ignorance Intention Bounds Excuse Contrary Every Man

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and a precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment."”

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819

“Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.”

Law Marriage Institutions Contrary Laws Of Nature Maintenance

Author:Honore de Balzac

“A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.”

Giving Wells Hands Law Contrary Employment Divinity Professors Commerce Multitudes

Book:The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.”

Law Politics Race Moral Color Constitution Contrary Distinction Our Society Validity Classification

Author:Thurgood Marshall