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“... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.”

Needs Different Law Order Asks Records Subjects Effects Produce Demand Function Lays Rewards Discourse Obliged Knowledge And Power

Author:Michel Foucault

“The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.”

Men World Soul Law Simple Results History Conditions Produce Constant Laws Of Nature

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool”

Men Law Religious Effects Produce Fool Convince

Book:The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches

Source: The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches

“Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.”

May Law Purpose Justice Produce Judging Authority Court Forgotten Lawyer Obedience Court System

Author:Charley Reese

“It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth.”

Art Law Opinion Produce Photography Critics Unimportant Art Critic

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”

Men Body Law Desire Social Virtue Crime Produce Command Civilized Customs Legislators Savagery

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.”

Seems Law Liberty Produce Revolution Terrible Bizarre

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.”

Source: The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications

“It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.”

Men Should Country Law Produce Hero Fruit Soil Laws Of Nature Delicacy Luxurious

Author:Herodotus

“Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.”

Law Produce Statements Certainty Uncertainty Laws Of Nature

Book:New York

Source: New York

“It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.”

Long Law Used Steps Modern Produce Needed Starting Remedy Schemes Starting Point English Law

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919