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“The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.”

Source: Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union

“I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand the nature and the laws of the Cosmos if we would from the beginning recognize its originator and upholder as being of the female sex.”

Ifs Should Done God Law Sex Female Conviction Cosmos

Book:Last Tales

Source: Last Tales

“The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.”

Ifs May Shows Law Culture Growth Shapes Capable Length Casting Resisting Stature Impediments Casting Off

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

“Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.”

Ifs Men Humans Art Seems Law Conditions Spread Speed Civilized Association Precise Human Society

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.”

Ifs Reason Law Loses Break Fool Demand Criticism Elders Pardon Applause

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.”

“If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.”

Ifs Want Law Pleasure Labor Toil

Book:Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

“If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.”

Ifs Law Liberty Principles Creation Visible Atoms Utterance

Book:Selections from the writings of John Ruskin ... With a portrait

Source: Selections from the writings of John Ruskin ... With a portrait

“our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems, our government and, I would add, also our sporting events. I would really like to see some separation of church and stadium, if we could work on that.”

People Ifs Government School Law Challenges Church Common Events Add Separation Stadiums Sporting Events Health System

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

“I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings on Mount Sinai, that the great law-giver, if he returned to this planet, would doubt his own identity, abjure every one of his deliverances, yea, even commend the very sins he so clearly forbade his people.”

People Ifs Believe Law Sin Half Doubt Identity Planets Ten Dozen Commandments Surroundings Giver Moses Commonplace Attorney Deliverance Ten Commandments Sinai

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“We often say, and you have heard the expression as it has already been referred to in this conference, that "as man now is, God once was, and as God now is, man may become." The only way man may become as God now is, is through fulfilling the laws of celestial marriage and the laws of the gospel, as I have just read to you the word of the Lord from the D&C. Can we afford to overlook such opportunities for exaltation? Temple marriage is not just another form of church wedding; it is a divine covenant with the Lord that if we are faithful to the end, we may become as God now is.”

Ifs Men Way May Ends Form Law Opportunity Church Lord Heard Divine Expression Faithful Temples Fulfilling Conferences Covenant Celestial Exaltation Temple Marriage

Author:Eldred G. Smith

“It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.”

Ifs Wisdom Law Differences Wealth Numbers Class Principles Ought Activity Mass Sacred Property Population Extremes Neighbor Favors Productive Multitudes Private Property

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness.”

Source: The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

“If nothing is more important to you than that you feel good, you can form a fantasy about someone who is in your life and they will begin to modify to meet your fantasy, because Law of Attraction is a very powerful thing.”

Ifs Feels Important Form Law Powerful Fantasy Attraction Feel Good Law Of Attraction Manifestation Very Powerful

Author:Esther Hicks

“No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It's the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.”

Ifs Way Want Matter Happens Law Universe No Matter What Law Of Attraction Manifestation Aspiration Relax Anything Can Happen

Author:Esther Hicks

“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.”

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Author:Tucker Max

“How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.”

Ifs States Law Individual Opinion Relation Protected Foreign Relations

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.”

Ifs I Can Use Law Discovery Physics Quantum Mechanic Framework Quantum Mechanics Laws Of Physics

Author:Brian Greene

“Christ is redemption only as He actually redeems and delivers our nature from sin. If He is not the law and spring of a new spirit of life, He is nothing. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," as many, no more.”

Ifs Law Spirit Christ Sin Son Spring Redemption Spirit Of God Spirit Of Life

Book:Sermons for the new life

Source: Sermons for the new life

“I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.”

Ifs Knows Men Law Asks Chance White Race Break Indian White Man

Author:Chief Joseph

“The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.”

Ifs Two Law Known Marriage Player Policy Trophies Good Marriage

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“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.”

“I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.”

Ifs Knows Needs Law Born Common Cases Share Policy Fairs Caught Immigration Common Sense Ireland Traps New Yorkers Fair Share Immigration Policy Immigration Laws

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.”

“If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Reason Law Sound Principles Morality Assuming Libertarian Arguing Objectives Contradiction No Reason Free Will Commodity

Author:William J. Murray

“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.”

“Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.”

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Author:Hugh Price Hughes

“When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Facts Law Protect Weak Offended

Author:Katha Pollitt

“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.”

People Ifs Life Humans Ends Action Law Nature Human Nature Trust Victory Unreliable Right Action

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.”

Ifs Want Giving Wanted Law Order Marriage Example Husband Giving Up Married Doctors Medicine Sake Lawyer My Husband Marry Me

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.”

Ifs Law Birth Favors Birth Control

Author:Florence Prag Kahn

“If people are worried about unfair advancement, they should look at the sons-in-law of the world running companies. They've truly slept their way to the top.”

People Ifs World Way Should Looks Running Success Law Company Son Worried Unfair Advancement In-laws

Author:Mary Cunningham Agee

“Any great gift of power or talent is a burden ... But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law.”

Ifs World Way May Done Law Born Talent This World Burden Great Gifts

Book:The Dark Is Rising

Source: The Dark Is Rising

“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?”

People Ifs Humans Children Important Enough Law Lying Mother Human Beings Behinds Destiny Rights Wall Conscience Fundamentals Pregnancy Abdomen

Author:Bob Dornan

“I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my walletand check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing.”

Ifs Knows Should Hands Law One Thing Missing Industry Intellectual Claims Agree Property Checks Experts Agendas Executives More Money Music Industry Intellectual Property

Author:Janis Ian

“My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not a hardening, or settling process. Education is not to teach men facts, theories, or laws; it is not to reform them, or amuse them, or to make them expert technicians in any field; it is to teach them to think, to think straight if possible; but to think always for themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Men Mind Facts Law Young Process Views Teach Fields Theory Training University Intellect Reform Settling Young Man Experts Horizon Technicians

Author:Robert M

“If outer doors close seem to close to you, do not hesitate. Perist in inner preparations. The inner realm of thought controls all outer action. When you get the right attitude, the outer world of results and personalities must conform to it. That is the law of mind-action.”

Ifs World Mind Seems Action Law Results Attitude Doors Personality Preparation Realms Conform Outer Worlds

Book:The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

“Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags, any snags there are may well run and ruin the stocking. In fact, if I may fashion Coudert's law from Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy, it is this: Love is not only changed by observation; it is changed for the worse.”

Ifs Wells May Facts Light Running Law Love Is Principles Fashion Changed Observation Ruins Examining Love Is Like Stockings

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“When someone refuses to listen to you or others, there is one source or entity that he will listen to: Call it God, the universe, a higher power, karmic law, whatever. At any rate, if he feels that the universe is trying to tell him something, then he may listen. He won't listen to you or anyone else, but the universe, that's a different story.”

Ifs Feels Trying May Different Stories Law Universe Source Higher Rate Refuse Entity Higher Power

Book:Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement

Source: Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement

“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”

Ifs Men Firsts Said Done Law Pleasure Materials Birth Activity First Time Sells Slave Profit Deny Thanks Enjoyment Display Dishes Said And Done Deployment Lentils

Author:African Spir

“Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.”

Ifs School Film Law Brother Anxiety My Brother Serving Vietnam Graduates Execution Marine Attending Law School Graduate School

Author:Peter Guber

“Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.”

Ifs Law Order Nations Military Claims Court Trials Civilians Rule Of Law Tribunals Uganda

Author:Bill Vaughan

“If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!”

Ifs Feels Should Reason Would Be Spiritual Law Understanding Memories Hell Equal Conscious Madness Fancy Anarchy Our Memories Spiritual Beings

Author:John Milton

“All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.”

People Ifs Needs Problem Law Poor Money Moral Crime Easier Poor People

Book:I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

Source: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

“Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Giving Hard Law Guy Black Secret Trouble Shots Agency Law Enforcement Enforcement Secret Service

Author:Cecily Strong

“Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W lever, if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not - to uphold the laws of the land.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.”

Ifs Doe States Law Evil Speak Impossible Communication Please Bounds Be Good Forbidden Temperament Laws Of Nature Nonviolent Communication

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.”

Ifs Government Law Poor Numbers Rich Example Property Divides Unjust

Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

“Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.”

Ifs Should States Whole Law Order Wealth Justice Virtue Kings Office Abuse Accounts Regard Secure Bad Things Leisure

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle