“Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.” LawOrderEssentialsRelationFoundationInternationalStabilityInternational Relations Author:J. William Fulbright
“Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law.” WritingLawLostChristianityEssentialsUnitySpiteDivisionRecognizingAroma Author:C. S. Lewis
“But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.” WellsLawCommonResponsibilityLibertySubjectsEssentialsAuthorityAbuseFunctionConstitutionFoundationCourtPressesProtectionCriminalsPunishmentSecureInjuryContemptOffensePublicationJudicialDischargeLibelConcededCommon Law Author:Charles Evans Hughes
“The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.” StatesDoneUseGovernmentLawNumbersExistenceCasesPowerEssentialsSocialismDeceptionInternalsRecourse Author:Adolf Hitler
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of "the proper channels," a way of breaking through passages blocked by tradition and prejudice. It is disruptive and troublesome, but it is a necessary disruption, a healthy troublesome.” WayLawDemocracyHealthyEssentialsTraditionPrejudiceProtestPassagesDepartureDisruptionTroublesomeBlockedDisruptive Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
“There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.” GovernmentLawSocialFailingConditionsEssentialsTasksInstituteAccountingRegisterDivergenceLaws And Government Book:A Theory of Justice Source: A Theory of Justice
“The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.” SelfMomentsRealityLawPleasureDivineMastersEssentialsSeekingWorldlyDivine LawWorldly Things Author:Asaram
“We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.” IfsMeanRealChristianLawForgetExerciseEssentialsInjusticeNeighborViolentDenialNonviolenceRedress Author:Philip Berrigan
“Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.” MayUseActionLawCoursesWrittenHappenedEssentialsTasksRemainsHistoricalVariousNarrativeSequenceWritten History Book:The New Psychohistory Source: The New Psychohistory
“Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.” IfsMenWellsLooksEyeLawPassionHeavenSocialLibertyChristianityKindnessHonestyIndustryProudEssentialsBreathsDepthAffectionSpreadIntellectFavorsWell BeingSelfishnessPurityAppetiteBrotherhoodSubordinatesTruth HonestyAzureFaith In Love Author:Mark Hopkins