“Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.” MenHumansArtLawFatherBeliefHeavenClearTaughtDivineBrotherDutyConflictConscienceCrossesArmyPrisonGuidesConvincedResistanceDoctrineBranchesCommandmentsUnconditionalOur FatherNationalityJoiningTaught UsInfallibleInexorableClear ConscienceSoundnessDivine LawNazarene Author:Ben Salmon
“Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.” PeopleHumansLawPartyObjectivesAmbitiousMediocreHuman SocietyBureaucrats Author:Alexander Zinoviev
“Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.” PeopleIfsLifeHumansEndsActionLawNatureHuman NatureTrustVictoryUnreliableRight Action Author:Goswami Kriyananda
“When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?” PeopleIfsHumansChildrenImportantEnoughLawLyingMotherHuman BeingsBehindsDestinyRightsWallConscienceFundamentalsPregnancyAbdomen Author:Bob Dornan
“There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much.” HumansTwoLawToo MuchSentencesCop Author:Patricia Lockwood
“The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.” MenWritingMindHumansReasonWould BeLawPurposeSoundLibertyIssuesSubjectsMediaCrimeGeniusPureSpeechEmptyConstitutionPressesPunishmentEmpiresVenturePersecutionAttorneyElbowsHuman Reason Author:Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
“Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.” HumansReasonLawIndividualNaturalJusticeResponsibilityConscienceConstitutionIndependenceInstitutionsSuperiorsIndividual RightsFree Thought Author:John Goodwin
“That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.” PeopleBelieveHumansChildrenArtLawMotivationValuesWealthEvidenceCapitalismDoctorsPressureHarmOfficialsInnateResearchersPlausibleRobbing Author:Eula Biss
“You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.” WantHumansSoulAgeEarthLawCommunityChallengesClassDemocracyMastersTheorySlaveLawyerCorporateSanityDisobedienceSleevesPrecedentDestroyersObeyingPlunderKneelingPrincipledEscalating Author:Richard Grossman
“Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.” FirstsHumansHeartLawMemoriesHuman HeartAnguishVeilsCravingAdjustmentMercifulGrimFugitive Book:One After Another Source: One After Another
“Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.” HumansFactsLawSufferingThreeWishSimpleEconomicBehaviorPercentEconomicsInvestingEnvyPhysicsPsychologicalEndeavorCaptureDisorderEconomistLaws Of NatureCapturedPsychological Disorders Author:Andrew Lo